How to format your references using the Brain Informatics citation style

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

Sharpe J (2014) Developmental biology: Cells unite by trapping a signal. Nature 515:41–42

A journal article with 2 authors

Volz J, Rauschenbeutel A (2012) Physics. Two atoms announce their long-distance relationship. Science 337:40–41

A journal article with 3 authors

McLeod P, Reed N, Dienes Z (2003) Psychophysics: how fielders arrive in time to catch the ball. Nature 426:244–245

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Fukami T, Beaumont HJE, Zhang X-X, Rainey PB (2007) Immigration history controls diversification in experimental adaptive radiation. Nature 446:436–439

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiebe VJ (2015) Drug Therapy for Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Balandin S, Moltchanov D, Koucheryavy Y (2009) Smart Spaces and Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking: 9th International Conference, NEW2AN 2009 and Second Conference on Smart Spaces, ruSMART 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 15-18, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kacprzyk J, Szkatuła G (2010) Inductive Learning: A Combinatorial Optimization Approach. In: Koronacki J, Raś ZW, Wierzchoń ST, Kacprzyk J (eds) Advances in Machine Learning I: Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Ryszard S.Michalski. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 75–93

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 Brain Informatics.

Blog post

Andrews R (2015) Study Reveals That Your Cat Is Basically A Tiny Lion. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/no-your-cat-isnt-plotting-kill-youbut-it-has-lions-personality/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2011) Telecommunications: Enhanced Data Collection and Analysis Could Inform FCC’s Efforts to Complete the Digital Transition of Low-Power Television Stations and Reallocate Spectrum. 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

Moore DL (2012) The Challenge Program: A quantitative analysis of strategies designed to eliminate the achievement gap. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Film Series. New York Times C20

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	Brain Informatics
Abbreviation	Brain Inform.
ISSN (print)	2198-4018
ISSN (online)	2198-4026
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