How to format your references using the Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery citation style

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

[1]

J. Guest, Ecology. How reefs respond to mass coral spawning, Science 320 (2008) 621–623.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.A. McNiven, H.M. Thompson, Vesicle formation at the plasma membrane and trans-Golgi network: the same but different, Science 313 (2006) 1591–1594.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.P. Suttmeier, C. Cao, D.F. Simon, Priorities and funding. “Knowledge innovation” and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Science 312 (2006) 58–59.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Ding, G.N. Kakazei, X. Liu, K.Y. Guslienko, A.O. Adeyeye, Higher order vortex gyrotropic modes in circular ferromagnetic nanodots, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4796.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.C.J. Luo, Y. Guo, Vibro-Impact Dynamics, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

G. Steinhoff, ed., Regenerative Medicine - from Protocol to Patient: 5. Regenerative Therapies II, 3rd ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Horwich, G. Ross, Circulating Tumor Markers, in: M.H. Bronchud, M.A. Foote, G. Giaccone, O. Olopade, P. Workman (Eds.), Principles of Molecular Oncology, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2008: pp. 107–116.

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 Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, New Finger Device Reads Books To The Blind, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-finger-device-reads-books-blind/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Energy Research and Development Administration’s Contingency Plan for Constructing Additional Enrichment Capacity at Portsmouth, Ohio, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P.M. Blumenthal, Local Land Use Regulatory Regimes and Residential Development Outcomes: An Analysis of Subdivision Review in Four Counties in the DC Region, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2014.

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

[1]

J. Foley, G. Hay, New Potential for A.I.G. Deals, New York Times (2010) B2.

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	Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
Abbreviation	Clin. Neurol. Neurosurg.
ISSN (print)	0303-8467
Scope	General Medicine Clinical Neurology Surgery