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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Emsley J (2001) Good news is no news. Nature 413:113
A journal article with 2 authors
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Buesseler KO, Boyd PW (2003) Climate change. Will ocean fertilization work? Science 300:67–68
A journal article with 3 authors
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von Melchner L, Pallas SL, Sur M (2000) Visual behaviour mediated by retinal projections directed to the auditory pathway. Nature 404:871–876
A journal article with 5 or more authors
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Okamura K, Chung W-J, Ruby JG, et al (2008) The Drosophila hairpin RNA pathway generates endogenous short interfering RNAs. Nature 453:803–806

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Reid R, Fraser-King G, Schwaderer WD (2006) Data Lifecycles. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK
An edited book
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Rosenberg E, Gophna U (2011) Beneficial Microorganisms in Multicellular Life Forms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
A chapter in an edited book
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Saravanakumar G, Kim WJ (2014) Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Nanocarriers as Promising Drug and Gene Delivery Systems. In: Prokop A, Iwasaki Y, Harada A (eds) Intracellular Delivery II: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 55–91

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
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Hale T (2015) Here’s What Ursula Would Look Like If She Had Evolved In Different Ocean Environments. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/buzzfeed-re-imagine-ursula-little-mermaid-if-she-evolved-different-environments/. 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
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Government Accountability Office (2000) Math and Science Education: Comprehensive Information About Federally Funded Materials Not Available. 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
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Tanag HB (2017) Building bridges of hope after loss: A self-directed workbook for foster parents. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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
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Shear MD, Cardwell D (2017) Trump Advisers Wage Tug of War On Climate Deal. New York Times 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 titlee-Neuroforum
AbbreviationeNeuroforum
ISSN (online)1868-856X
Scope

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