How to format your references using the Brain Topography citation style

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

Klein RG (2003) Paleoanthropology. Whither the Neanderthals? Science 299:1525–1527

A journal article with 2 authors

Land MF, Osorio D (2014) Physiology. Extraordinary color vision. Science 343:381–382

A journal article with 3 authors

Plerou V, Gopikrishnan P, Stanley HE (2003) Econophysics: Two-phase behaviour of financial markets. Nature 421:130

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kosmeier S, De Luca AC, Zolotovskaya S, et al (2013) Coherent control of plasmonic nanoantennas using optical eigenmodes. Sci Rep 3:1808

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mashadi B, Crolla D (2012) Vehicle Powertrain Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Rapozzi V, Jori G (eds) (2015) Resistance to Photodynamic Therapy in Cancer. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Talamonti MS (2016) Management Controversies and Treatment Strategies for Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer. In: Bentrem D, Benson AB (eds) Gastrointestinal Malignancies. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 59–75

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 Topography.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016) NASA’s Juno Mission Involves A Scientific Joke That Took 400 Years To Set Up. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-juno-mission-to-jupiter-has-awkward-mythological-origins-in-mistresses-and-infidelity/. 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 (1993) Demand Distribution Rolodex Card. 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

Sanchez M (2012) For imagination and love – The permanence of the Mexican father who fathers at a distance. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Novick SM (2015) Authentic Mexican Flavors for Summer. New York Times LI8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Klein 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Klein 2003; Land and Osorio 2014).

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

Two authors: (Land and Osorio 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kosmeier et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Brain Topography
Abbreviation	Brain Topogr.
ISSN (print)	0896-0267
ISSN (online)	1573-6792
Scope	Anatomy Clinical Neurology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Neurology Radiological and Ultrasound Technology