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. Butterfield NJ. Paleontology. Terminal developments in Ediacaran embryology. Science. 2011;334:1655–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rockström J, Falkenmark M. Agriculture: increase water harvesting in Africa. Nature. 2015;519:283–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Freitag J, Ast J, Bölker M. Cryptic peroxisomal targeting via alternative splicing and stop codon read-through in fungi. Nature. 2012;485:522–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Drews B, Roellig K, Menzies BR, Shaw G, Buentjen I, Herbert CA, et al. Ultrasonography of wallaby prenatal development shows that the climb to the pouch begins in utero. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1458.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cooke R. Classical Algebra: Its Nature, Origins, and Uses. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

1. Vinel A, Mehmood R, Berbineau M, Garcia CR, Huang C-M, Chilamkurti N, editors. Communication Technologies for Vehicles: 4th International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains 2012, Vilnius, Lithuania, April 25-27, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Baker NL, Mason JL. Gender Issues in Psychological Testing of Personality and Abilities. In: Chrisler JC, McCreary DR, editors. Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology: Volume 2: Gender Research in Social and Applied Psychology. New York, NY: Springer; 2010. p. 63–88.

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. Luntz S. The Hydrocarbon Winds of Titan Explained [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/hydrocarbon-winds-titan-explained/

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. Public-Private Competitions: Access to Records Is Inhibiting Work on Congressional Mandates. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Mar. Report No.: T-NSIAD-98-111.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Turkel CC. Female leaders’ 360-degree self -perception accuracy for leadership competencies and skills [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2008.

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. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: 11 Killed In Chechen Ambushes. New York Times. 2004 May 19;A6.

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