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

Kirchman D (2009) Journal club. A microbial ecologist learns something new from an old-fashioned study. Nature 459:13

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilson CG, Sherman PW (2010) Anciently asexual bdelloid rotifers escape lethal fungal parasites by drying up and blowing away. Science 327:574–576

A journal article with 3 authors

De’ath G, Lough JM, Fabricius KE (2009) Declining coral calcification on the Great Barrier Reef. Science 323:116–119

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kramer A, Yang FC, Snodgrass P, et al (2001) Regulation of daily locomotor activity and sleep by hypothalamic EGF receptor signaling. Science 294:2511–2515

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schütz H, Wiedemann PM, Hennings W, et al (2006) Comparative Risk Assessment. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Yu S, Guo S (2016) Big Data Concepts, Theories, and Applications, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Sakiyama K, Batina L (2010) Arithmetic for Public-Key Cryptography. In: Verbauwhede IMR (ed) Secure Integrated Circuits and Systems. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 63–78

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 (2016) New Zealand Quakes Caused Seafloor To Rise Upwards By 2 Meters. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-zealand-quakes-seafloor-rise-upwards-2-meters/. 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 (1995) Government Aircraft: Observations on Travel by Senior Officials. 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

Starr MJ (2015) Tests for Positive Selection on Genes Encoding Heat Shock Proteins in the Marine Slipper Snail, Crepidula fornicata. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Conte L (2011) Scouting Report. New York Times E7

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
Scope