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

Dalton R (2001) Swift move to collect fallout data. Nature 413:335

A journal article with 2 authors

Luo J, Lai Y (2014) Anisotropic zero-index waveguide with arbitrary shapes. Sci Rep 4:5875

A journal article with 3 authors

Jacque J-M, Triques K, Stevenson M (2002) Modulation of HIV-1 replication by RNA interference. Nature 418:435–438

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Guo CX, Xie J, Wang B, et al (2013) A new class of fluorescent-dots: long luminescent lifetime bio-dots self-assembled from DNA at low temperatures. Sci Rep 3:2957

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chadha R, Kant L (2007) Policy-Driven Mobile Ad hoc Network Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

van Ham M, Manley D, Bailey N, et al (eds) (2012) Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Atkins L, Aupy G, Cole D, Pruhs K (2011) Speed Scaling to Manage Temperature. In: Marchetti-Spaccamela A, Segal M (eds) Theory and Practice of Algorithms in (Computer) Systems: First International ICST Conference, TAPAS 2011, Rome, Italy, April 18-20, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 9–20

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

Andrew E (2015) Certain Commonly Used Drugs May Increase Risk Of Dementia. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/certain-commonly-used-drugs-may-increase-risk-dementia/. 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 (1992) Practitioner Data Bank: Information on Small Medical Malpractice Payments. 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

Enriquez M (2010) Music therapy to hospice patients of Visiting Nurse Association of Inland Counties: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Barron J (2016) A Museum Rights Its Course as Its Flagship Returns. New York Times C23

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton 2001; Luo and Lai 2014).

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

Two authors: (Luo and Lai 2014)
Three or more authors: (Guo 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