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. Bradner JE. Cancer: An essential passenger with p53. Nature. 2015;520:626–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lessard J, Sauvageau G. Bmi-1 determines the proliferative capacity of normal and leukaemic stem cells. Nature. 2003;423:255–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Abundo C, Monterola C, Legara EF. Criticality of forcing directions on the fragmentation and resilience of grid networks. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6195.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Han S, Tang R, Anderson LK, Woerner TE, Pei Z-M. A cell surface receptor mediates extracellular Ca(2+) sensing in guard cells. Nature. 2003;425:196–200.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Green SD. Making Sense of Construction Improvement. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Kocsis RN, editor. Serial Murder and the Psychology of Violent Crimes. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bäck T, Foussette C, Krause P. Empirical Analysis. In: Foussette C, Krause P, editors. Contemporary Evolution Strategies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 55–83.

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. Hamilton K. Climate Change And Poverty Are As Much Of A Threat As Terrorism For Many Young People [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/climate-change-and-poverty-are-as-much-of-a-threat-as-terrorism-for-many-young-people/

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. Whistleblower Protection Program: Opportunities Exist for OSHA and DOT to Strengthen Collaborative Mechanisms. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Mar. Report No.: GAO-14-286.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Karasik BA. Tele-collaboration in theatre: Collaboration mgmt tools in a digital and globalized age [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. Hartocollis A, Moynihan C. Official Says Druggist Stole 200,000 Pills of Oxycodone. New York Times. 2014 Jul 9;A18.

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