How to format your references using the e-Neuroforum citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for e-Neuroforum. 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

Schindel DE (2010) Biology without borders. Nature 467:779–781

A journal article with 2 authors

Meister G, Tuschl T (2004) Mechanisms of gene silencing by double-stranded RNA. Nature 431:343–349

A journal article with 3 authors

Roy K, Bandyopadhyay S, Atulasimha J (2013) Binary switching in a “symmetric” potential landscape. Sci Rep 3:3038

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Serafini M, Bugianesi R, Maiani G, et al (2003) Plasma antioxidants from chocolate. Nature 424:1013

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Çayirci E, Rong C (2009) Security in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Zhou W (2016) Stability and Synchronization Control of Stochastic Neural Networks, 1st ed. 2016. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Czajka P, Mizak W (2015) Hybrid Vision System for Diagnostics of Technical Objects and Processes. In: Szewczyk R, Zieliński C, Kaliczyńska M (eds) Progress in Automation, Robotics and Measuring Techniques: Volume 3 Measuring Techniques and Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 27–37

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 e-Neuroforum.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Permian Era Had Two Mass Extinctions. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/permian-era-had-two-mass-extinctions/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1980) Farmers Home Administration’s Computer-Based Unified Management Information System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bowmar JS (2012) Building Energy Efficiency and Resilience in the United States, One Disaster at a Time: Fostering Green Building Principles through Disaster Assistance. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Protess B, Goldstein M (2017) Filing Raises Questions for Nominee to the S.E.C. New York Times A19

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	e-Neuroforum
Abbreviation	eNeuroforum
ISSN (online)	1868-856X
Scope