How to format your references using the Archives of Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Neurology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Balescu R. Obituary: Ilya Prigogine (1917-2003). Nature. 2003;424(6944):30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Daily GC, Walker BH. Seeking the great transition. Nature. 2000;403(6767):243-245.

A journal article with 3 authors

Russell DG, Barry CE 3rd, Flynn JL. Tuberculosis: what we don’t know can, and does, hurt us. Science. 2010;328(5980):852-856.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tang K, Zhang Y, Yu M, et al. Evaluation of a new high-throughput method for identifying quorum quenching bacteria. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2935.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Plantin JC. Participatory Mapping. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Magoutis K, Pietzuch P, eds. Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 14th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2014, Held as Part of the 9th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2014, Berlin, Germany, June 3-5, 2014, Proceedings. Vol 8460. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Gyöngy I, Stinga PR. Rate of Convergence of Wong–Zakai Approximations for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations. In: Dalang RC, Dozzi M, Russo F, eds. Seminar on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications VII: Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, May 2011. Springer; 2013:95-130.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Archives of Neurology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Trailer For New Stephen Hawking Biopic Will Make You Cry. IFLScience. Published August 9, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/trailer-new-stephen-hawking-biopic-will-make-you-cry/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. Aviation Security: Slow Progress in Addressing Long-Standing Screener Performance Problems. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Schwarcz-Besson P. The Field in Psychoanalytic Research Methodology. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2017.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Shpigel B. Don’t Let a Dallas Receiver’s Size Fool You. New York Times. December 10, 2016:SP1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Neurology
Abbreviation	Arch. Neurol.
ISSN (print)	0003-9942
ISSN (online)	1538-3687
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Clinical Neurology

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