How to format your references using the Current Treatment Options in Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Treatment Options in Neurology. 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. Victor DG. Climate change: Embed the social sciences in climate policy. Nature. 2015;520:27–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Metzger CH, Karrai K. Cavity cooling of a microlever. Nature. 2004;432:1002–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. van Groenigen KJ, Osenberg CW, Hungate BA. Increased soil emissions of potent greenhouse gases under increased atmospheric CO2. Nature. 2011;475:214–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zhang Y, Liu W, Banks CE, Liu F, Li M, Xia F, et al. A fluorescence-quenching platform based on biomineralized hydroxyapatite from natural seashell and applied to cancer cell detection. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7556.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Furmston M. Powell-Smith and Furmston’s Building Contract Casebook. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

1. Habu J, Fawcett C, Matsunaga JM, editors. Evaluating Multiple Narratives: Beyond Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist Archaeologies. New York, NY: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sun C, Deng Y, Tang B, Zhong S. Urban Traffic Operation Pattern and Spatiotemporal Mode Based on Big Data (Taking Beijing Urban Area as an Example). In: Bian F, Xie Y, editors. Geo-Informatics in Resource Management and Sustainable Ecosystem: Third International Conference, GRMSE 2015, Wuhan, China, October 16-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. p. 32–47.

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 Treatment Options in Neurology.

Blog post

1. Taub B. Calcium Supplements May Increase The Risk Of Heart Disease, Study Finds [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/calcium-supplements-may-increase-risk-heart-disease/

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. Laboratory Accreditation: Requirements Vary Throughout the Federal Government. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Mar. Report No.: RCED-89-102.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dutta A. Systems optimization for mobility management [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2010.

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. Baker P, Shear MD. President Shifts Rationale For Firing F.B.I. Director, Calling Him a ‘Showboat.’ New York Times. 2017 May 11;A1.

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 Treatment Options in Neurology
Abbreviation	Curr. Treat. Options Neurol.
ISSN (print)	1092-8480
ISSN (online)	1534-3138
Scope	Clinical Neurology