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]

R. Yoho, How science fairs shaped my career, Science. 349 (2015) 1578.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.A. Deschenes, D.A. Vanden Bout, Single-molecule studies of heterogeneous dynamics in polymer melts near the glass transition, Science. 292 (2001) 255–258.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Reichenbach, M. Mobilia, E. Frey, Mobility promotes and jeopardizes biodiversity in rock-paper-scissors games, Nature. 448 (2007) 1046–1049.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Rothschild, O. Weissbrod, E. Barkan, A. Kurilshikov, T. Korem, D. Zeevi, P.I. Costea, A. Godneva, I.N. Kalka, N. Bar, S. Shilo, D. Lador, A.V. Vila, N. Zmora, M. Pevsner-Fischer, D. Israeli, N. Kosower, G. Malka, B.C. Wolf, T. Avnit-Sagi, M. Lotan-Pompan, A. Weinberger, Z. Halpern, S. Carmi, J. Fu, C. Wijmenga, A. Zhernakova, E. Elinav, E. Segal, Environment dominates over host genetics in shaping human gut microbiota, Nature. 555 (2018) 210–215.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Trout, S. Rivkin, Differentiate or Die, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

P. Mohapatra, S.V. Krishnamurthy, eds., Ad Hoc Networks: Technologies and Protocols, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Bliem, S. Woltran, Complexity of Secure Sets, in: E.W. Mayr (Ed.), Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science: 41st International Workshop, WG 2015, Garching, Germany, June 17-19, 2015, Revised Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016: pp. 64–77.

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]

S. Luntz, HIV Detected In “Cured” Mississippi Baby, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hiv-detected-cured-mississippi-baby/ (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, Data Mining: Federal Efforts Cover a Wide Range of Uses, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G.C. Boyer, Best Practices for Student Success on the ACT, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2012.

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]

B. Kenigsberg, Deep Into the Wild With Jane Goodall, New York Times. (2017) C8.

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

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