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How to format your references using the Asian Journal of Neurosurgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Journal of Neurosurgery. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Sassen K. Meteorology: dusty ice clouds over Alaska. Nature 2005;434:456.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Bekerman E, Einav S. Infectious disease. Combating emerging viral threats. Science 2015;348:282–3.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Discher DE, Mooney DJ, Zandstra PW. Growth factors, matrices, and forces combine and control stem cells. Science 2009;324:1673–7.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Wernet MF, Mazzoni EO, Çelik A, Duncan DM, Duncan I, Desplan C. Stochastic spineless expression creates the retinal mosaic for colour vision. Nature 2006;440:174–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Wagner D. Trading ETFs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.
An edited book
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Chaudhuri S, editor. Bichitra: The Making of an Online Tagore Variorum. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.
A chapter in an edited book
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Drumwright MM, Williams JD. The Role of Ethics in Food and Beverage Marketing to Children. In: Williams JD, Pasch KE, Collins CA, editors. Advances in Communication Research to Reduce Childhood Obesity. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. page 79–99.

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 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery.

Blog post
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Carpineti A. Highest-Energy Neutrino Spotted Outside Our Galaxy [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/high-energy-extra-galactic-neutrino-detected-icecube/

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
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Government Accountability Office. Space Transportation System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Castro Deller E. Recognizing signs of dementia: A curriculum for child welfare workers. 2013;

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
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Stewart JB. Major Hurdle in Tax Overhaul: The Breaks in Trump’s Own Field. New York Times2017;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 titleAsian Journal of Neurosurgery
AbbreviationAsian J. Neurosurg.
ISSN (print)1793-5482
ISSN (online)2248-9614
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