How to format your references using the Case Reports in Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Case Reports in Neurology. 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

Angier N. No, no, no. Science. 2000 Jul;289(5479):550a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shohat S, Shifman S. Bias towards large genes in autism. Nature. 2014 Aug;512(7512):E1-2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cramer P, Bushnell DA, Kornberg RD. Structural basis of transcription: RNA polymerase II at 2.8 angstrom resolution. Science. 2001 Jun;292(5523):1863–76.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

He Y-F, Li B-Z, Li Z, Liu P, Wang Y, Tang Q, et al. Tet-mediated formation of 5-carboxylcytosine and its excision by TDG in mammalian DNA. Science. 2011 Sep;333(6047):1303–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fencott C, Lockyer M, Clay J, Massey P. Game Invaders. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Yamashita S, Minato S-I, editors. Reversible Computation: 6th International Conference, RC 2014, Kyoto, Japan, July 10-11, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Nakayama Y. Formal Analysis of Epistemic Modalities and Conditionals Based on Logic of Belief Structures. In: Murata T, Mineshima K, Bekki D, editors. New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI-isAI 2014 Workshops, LENLS, JURISIN, and GABA, Kanagawa, Japan, October 27-28, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015; pp 37–52.

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 Case Reports in Neurology.

Blog post

Davis J. Make Love, Not War: Fighting Badgers Age Faster [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/make-love-not-war-fighting-badgers-age-faster/

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. Freight Railroad Regulation: Surface Transportation Board’s Oversight Could Benefit From Evidence Better Identifying How Mergers Affect Rates. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Williamson KM. The effects of communist policies, the democratic transition, and EU accession on gender equality in Germany and the Czech Republic. 2010

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

Crow K. A Sassy Lass Makes Way for Staid. New York Times. 2001 Jun;144.

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	Case Reports in Neurology
Abbreviation	Case Rep. Neurol.
ISSN (online)	1662-680X
Scope	Clinical Neurology