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

Johnson, S.C., 2014. Translational Medicine. A target for pharmacological intervention in an untreatable human disease. Science 346, 1192.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seo, M., Hillmyer, M.A., 2012. Reticulated nanoporous polymers by controlled polymerization-induced microphase separation. Science 336, 1422–1425.

A journal article with 3 authors

Irie, M., Kobatake, S., Horichi, M., 2001. Reversible surface morphology changes of a photochromic diarylethene single crystal by photoirradiation. Science 291, 1769–1772.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nishimura, E.K., Jordan, S.A., Oshima, H., Yoshida, H., Osawa, M., Moriyama, M., Jackson, I.J., Barrandon, Y., Miyachi, Y., Nishikawa, S.-I., 2002. Dominant role of the niche in melanocyte stem-cell fate determination. Nature 416, 854–860.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vona, L.W., 2017. Fraud Data Analytics Methodology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pumain, D. (Ed.), 2006. Hierarchy in Natural and Social Sciences, Methodos Series. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Steuer, C., 2016. The Role of Elections: The Recomposition of the Party System and the Hierarchization of Political Issues, in: Rougier, B., Lacroix, S. (Eds.), Egypt’s Revolutions: Politics, Religion, and Social Movements. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp. 81–99.

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 Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Archaeologists May Have Uncovered the Site of Jesus’s Trial [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/archaeologists-may-have-uncovered-site-jesuss-trial/ (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, 1997. Transportation and Telecommunications Issue Area--Active Assignments (No. AA-97-18(1)). 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

Kinney, E.L., 2009. Isolation, identification, and antimicrobial susceptibility analysis of Enterococccus spp. and Salmonella spp. from conventional poultry farms transitioning to organic farming practices (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Adkins, M., 2014. The Race to Beat ‘Best Before.’ New York Times MB3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Johnson, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Johnson, 2014; Seo and Hillmyer, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Seo and Hillmyer, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Nishimura 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