How to format your references using the Basal Ganglia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Basal Ganglia. 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

[1]

P.H. Bucksbaum, The future of attosecond spectroscopy, Science. 317 (2007) 766–769.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.N. Blattman, P.D. Greenberg, Cancer immunotherapy: a treatment for the masses, Science. 305 (2004) 200–205.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. Wang, Y. Hu, J. He, Deformation cycles of subduction earthquakes in a viscoelastic Earth, Nature. 484 (2012) 327–332.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y.-S. Yu, D.-S. Han, M.-W. Yoo, K.-S. Lee, Y.-S. Choi, H. Jung, J. Lee, M.-Y. Im, P. Fischer, S.-K. Kim, Resonant amplification of vortex-core oscillations by coherent magnetic-field pulses, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1301.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.M. Simpkins, C.A. Simpkins, Meditation and Yoga in Psychotherapy, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

M. Yung, J. Zhang, Z. Yang, eds., Trusted Systems: 7th International Conference, INTRUST 2015, Beijing, China, December 7-8, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.D. Sordi, Legitimation and the Party of Power in Kazakhstan, in: M. Brusis, J. Ahrens, M.S. Wessel (Eds.), Politics and Legitimacy in Post-Soviet Eurasia, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 72–96.

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 Basal Ganglia.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Four Fennec Foxes Born At The Living Desert Zoo, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/four-fennec-foxes-born-living-desert-zoo/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Results of EDP Auditor Reader Survey on Microcomputers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.E. Gillespie, Landscapes in Flux, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2014.

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

[1]

S. Kishkovsky, Yevgeny Kolobov, 57; Founded an Opera Theater, New York Times. (2003) A25.

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 title	Basal Ganglia
Abbreviation	Basal Ganglia
ISSN (print)	2210-5336
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology