How to format your references using the Brain Research citation style

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

Jensen, M.C., 2015. IMMUNOLOGY. Synthetic immunobiology boosts the IQ of T cells. Science 350, 514–515.

A journal article with 2 authors

Theis, T.N., Solomon, P.M., 2010. It’s time to reinvent the transistor! Science 327, 1600–1601.

A journal article with 3 authors

Walker, J., Cliff, R.A., Latham, A.G., 2006. U-Pb isotopic age of the StW 573 hominid from Sterkfontein, South Africa. Science 314, 1592–1594.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, S., Wang, W., Xu, J., Chu, D., Shen, Z.J., Roy, S., 2013. Electrical/optical dual-function redox potential transistor. Sci. Rep. 3, 3391.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heads, G., 2017. Living Mindfully. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Sahayaraj, K. (Ed.), 2014. Basic and Applied Aspects of Biopesticides. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Fend, F., Quintanilla-Martínez, L., 2012. The Application of Molecular Techniques on Bone Marrow Trephines, in: Anagnostou, D., Matutes, E. (Eds.), Bone Marrow Lymphoid Infiltrates: Diagnosis and Clinical Impact. Springer, London, pp. 67–81.

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 Research.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2015. The Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower Peaks TONIGHT [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-eta-aquarid-meteor-shower-cinco-de-mayo/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1993. Railroad Safety: Human Factor Accidents and Issues Affecting Engineer Work Schedules (No. RCED-93-160BR). 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

Fisher, E., 2012. Suffering God (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Rothenberg, B., 2017. Top-Seeded Kerber Tumbles Out of Fourth Round Amid the Usual Havoc. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Jensen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Jensen, 2015; Theis and Solomon, 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Theis and Solomon, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Brain Research
Abbreviation	Brain Res.
ISSN (print)	0006-8993
Scope	Developmental Biology Molecular Biology Clinical Neurology General Neuroscience