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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Astudillo Besnier P. Chile needs better science governance and support. Nature. 2014;511:385.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schubert EF, Kim JK. Solid-state light sources getting smart. Science. 2005;308:1274–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Smilkov D, Hidalgo CA, Kocarev L. Beyond network structure: How heterogeneous susceptibility modulates the spread of epidemics. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4795.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Watkins RE, Wisely GB, Moore LB, Collins JL, Lambert MH, Williams SP, et al. The human nuclear xenobiotic receptor PXR: structural determinants of directed promiscuity. Science. 2001;292:2329–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. MAK- und BAT-Werte-Liste 2014. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2014.

An edited book

1. Královič R, Niwiński D, editors. Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2009: 34th International Symposium, MFCS 2009, Novy Smokovec, High Tatras, Slovakia, August 24-28, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pestana EA, Belak S, Diallo A, Crowther JR, Viljoen GJ. Disease Diagnosis Using Real-Time PCR Specific Procedures for Important Veterinary Pathogens. In: Belak S, Diallo A, Crowther JR, Viljoen GJ, editors. Early, rapid and sensitive veterinary molecular diagnostics - real time PCR applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 73–234.

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. Fang J. Offshore Wind Farms Are Havens For Seals [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/offshore-wind-farms-are-havens-seals/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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. General Aviation Airports: Unauthorized Land Use Highlights Need for Improved Oversight and Enforcement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 May. Report No.: RCED-99-109.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Knudsen E. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder empowerment program: A grant project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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. MacFARQUHAR N. Chechen Links Nemtsov Killing to Charlie Hebdo Cartoons. New York Times. 2015 Mar 10;A4.

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