How to format your references using the CNS Drugs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for CNS Drugs. 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. Murphy KM. Comment on “Activation of β-catenin in dendritic cells regulates immunity versus tolerance in the intestine.” Science. 2011;333:405; author reply 405.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Stark J, Hardy K. Mathematics. Chaos: useful at last? Science. 2003;301:1192–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zhao J, Benlekbir S, Rubinstein JL. Electron cryomicroscopy observation of rotational states in a eukaryotic V-ATPase. Nature. 2015;521:241–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Myong S, Rasnik I, Joo C, Lohman TM, Ha T. Repetitive shuttling of a motor protein on DNA. Nature. 2005;437:1321–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Otto M. Chemometrics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2016.

An edited book

1. Arthur DW, Vicini FA, Wazer DE, Khan AJ, editors. Short Course Breast Radiotherapy: A Comprehensive Review of Hypofractionation, Partial Breast, and Intra-Operative Irradiation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Debnath L, Shah FA. The Gabor Transform and Time–Frequency Signal Analysis. In: Shah FA, editor. Wavelet Transforms and Their Applications. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser; 2015. p. 243–86.

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 CNS Drugs.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. New Initiative To Save 50 Coral Reefs From Extinction [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-initiative-to-save-50-coral-reefs-from-extinction/

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. Vehicle Safety Inspections: Improved DOT Communication Could Better Inform State Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Aug. Report No.: GAO-15-705.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Diaz D. A discrete hollow—Los Angeles [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

1. Crow K. Buses Parked at Ground Zero: Sensible or Sacrilege? New York Times. 2003 Mar 23;147.

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	CNS Drugs
Abbreviation	CNS Drugs
ISSN (print)	1172-7047
ISSN (online)	1179-1934
Scope	Clinical Neurology Pharmacology (medical) Psychiatry and Mental health