How to format your references using the Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Brown RH Jr. Developmental biology. Neuron research leaps ahead. Science. 2008;321:1169–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Land MF, Osorio D. Physiology. Extraordinary color vision. Science. 2014;343:381–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rosin-Arbesfeld R, Townsley F, Bienz M. The APC tumour suppressor has a nuclear export function. Nature. 2000;406:1009–12.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Morel CM, Carvalheiro JR, Romero CNP, Costa EA, Buss PM. The road to recovery. Nature. 2007;449:180–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Process Safety in Outsourced Manufacturing Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2000.

An edited book

1. Kozłowski M. Thermal Processes Using Attosecond Laser Pulses: When Time Matters. Marciak-Kozłowska J, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Grill D, Pfanz H, Lomsky B, Bytnerowicz A, Grulke NE, Tausz M. Physiological responses of trees to air pollutants at high elevation sites. In: Omasa K, Nouchi I, Kok LJD, editors. Plant Responses to Air Pollution and Global Change. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2005. p. 37–44.

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 Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. You Can Now Take A Driverless Uber In The US [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/you-can-now-take-a-driverless-uber-in-the-us/

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. Concerted Effort Needed to Improve Indian Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Jan. Report No.: CED-77-24.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Seipert KG. A correlational analysis of the values of Baby Boomer and Generation X rural public school principals [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2013.

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. Gustines GG. Where the Artists Have Superpowers. New York Times. 2012 Jul 15;BU1.

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	Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Neurol. Neurosci. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1528-4042
ISSN (online)	1534-6293
Scope	Clinical Neurology General Neuroscience