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. Smaglik P. Cash incentives. Nature. 2004;427:567.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fine M, Tchernov D. Scleractinian coral species survive and recover from decalcification. Science. 2007;315:1811.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Yanoviak SP, Dudley R, Kaspari M. Directed aerial descent in canopy ants. Nature. 2005;433:624–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bernal D, Donley JM, Shadwick RE, Syme DA. Mammal-like muscles power swimming in a cold-water shark. Nature. 2005;437:1349–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Horton W. E-Learning by Design. San Francisco, CA, USA: Pfeiffer; 2011.

An edited book

1. McTear M. The Conversational Interface: Talking to Smart Devices. Callejas Z, Griol D, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chen LM, Friedman R, Roe AW. Somatosensory: Imaging Tactile Perception. In: Roe AW, editor. Imaging the Brain with Optical Methods. New York, NY: Springer; 2010. p. 65–92.

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 Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. 13-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Scientist to Achieve Nuclear Fusion [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/13-year-old-becomes-youngest-scientist-achieve-nuclear-fusion/

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. Pell Grants: How the Department of Education Estimates Program Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Feb. Report No.: HRD-90-73BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Vado PF. Foster Care Independence Act of 1999: A policy analysis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Corkery M. Deep Debt and Rivals Push Toy Chain Into Bankruptcy. New York Times. 2017 Sep 19;B6.

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