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

Shlesinger MF. Physics in the noise. Nature. 2001 Jun;411(6838):641.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phair RD, Misteli T. High mobility of proteins in the mammalian cell nucleus. Nature. 2000 Apr;404(6778):604–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bylander J, Duty T, Delsing P. Current measurement by real-time counting of single electrons. Nature. 2005 Mar;434(7031):361–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wilson B, Dewers T, Reches Z, Brune J. Particle size and energetics of gouge from earthquake rupture zones. Nature. 2005 Apr;434(7034):749–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mohanty S, Ghosh R. Planning a Scientific Career in Industry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Soomere T, Quak E, editors. Preventive Methods for Coastal Protection: Towards the Use of Ocean Dynamics for Pollution Control. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Dunger DB, Salgin B, Ong KK. Early Childhood Contributions to Insulin Resistance. In: Zeitler PS, Nadeau KJ, editors. Insulin Resistance: Childhood Precursors and Adult Disease. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2009; pp 81–92.

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

Andrew D. What Do Sugar And Climate Change Have In Common? Misplaced Scepticism Of The Science [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Oct [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/what-do-sugar-and-climate-change-have-in-common-misplaced-scepticism-of-the-science/

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. The Upcoming Transition: GAO’s Efforts to Assist the 111th Congress and the Next Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Warner T. California Assembly Bill 2404 Fair Play in Community Sports Act compliance procedures manual. 2015

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

Gordon MR. U.S. Mulls Providing Weapons to Ukraine. New York Times. 2017 Aug;A4.

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