How to format your references using the Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Townes, C.H., 2004. Making waves. Nature 432, 153.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boguski, M.S., McIntosh, M.W., 2003. Biomedical informatics for proteomics. Nature 422, 233–237.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hastings, I.M., Bray, P.G., Ward, S.A., 2002. Parasitology. A requiem for chloroquine. Science 298, 74–75.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gendrel, A.-V., Lippman, Z., Yordan, C., Colot, V., Martienssen, R.A., 2002. Dependence of heterochromatic histone H3 methylation patterns on the Arabidopsis gene DDM1. Science 297, 1871–1873.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mattone, J., Vaidya, N., 2016. Cultural Transformations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Geva, S., Kamps, J., Schenkel, R. (Eds.), 2012. Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure: 10th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval, INEX 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, December 12-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Shriberg, E., 2008. Practical Prosody, in: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (Eds.), Text, Speech and Dialogue: 11th International Conference, TSD 2008, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2008. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 17–17.

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 Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. When It Comes To Mental Health, Parents Shouldn’t Worry Who Their Children Are Friends With [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1994. Welfare to Work: JOBS Automated Systems Do Not Focus on Program’s Employment Objective (No. AIMD-94-44). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Iniguez, D., 2013. Mentoring through performing arts; A grant proposal for at risk youth in middle school (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

de la MERCED, M.J., Strand, O., 2017. Nestlé Goes High End, Buying Blue Bottle Coffee. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Townes, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Boguski and McIntosh, 2003; Townes, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Boguski and McIntosh, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Gendrel et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical
Abbreviation	Auton. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	1566-0702
Scope	Clinical Neurology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Endocrine and Autonomic Systems