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]

H.R.J. Walters, Physics. Antimatter atomic physics, Science 330 (2010) 762–763.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Goto, H. Uchikawa, Fault-tolerant quantum computation with a soft-decision decoder for error correction and detection by teleportation, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2044.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Gong, A. Kirkeminde, S. Ren, Symmetry-defying iron pyrite (FeS₂) nanocrystals through oriented attachment, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2092.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Lou, Y. Liu, C. Shi, X. Yao, F. Zheng, Precise orbit determination of BeiDou constellation based on BETS and MGEX network, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4692.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.H. Barnett, J. Grice, New Mechanisms in Glucose Control, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

A. Simões, M.P. Diogo, K. Gavroglu, eds., Sciences in the Universities of Europe, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Academic Landscapes, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Quentel-Touche, Charles V’s Visual Definition of the Queen’s Virtues, in: K. Green, C. Mews (Eds.), Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011: pp. 53–80.

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]

B. Taub, Ancient Mayan Village Preserved In Volcanic Ash Lets Us Peer Into The Lives Of Ordinary People, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ancient-mayan-elites-may-not-have-been-autocratic-we-thought/ (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, Validity and Comparability of Quantitative Data Presented by the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency on Inspectors General Activities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.M. Lew, Hydroxyl, Hydroperoxyl, and Organic Peroxy Radical Chemistry in Forested Areas: Measurements, Modeling and Implications for Atmospheric Chemistry, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 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

[1]

J. Wagner, Questions Add to Drumbeat of Mets Injuries, New York Times (2017) B8.

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