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

Firestein GS (2003) Evolving concepts of rheumatoid arthritis. Nature 423:356–361

A journal article with 2 authors

Merritt S, Clauset A (2013) Environmental structure and competitive scoring advantages in team competitions. Sci Rep 3:3067

A journal article with 3 authors

Shaw SL, Kamyar R, Ehrhardt DW (2003) Sustained microtubule treadmilling in Arabidopsis cortical arrays. Science 300:1715–1718

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Park D-H, Han CJ, Shul Y-G, Choy J-H (2014) Avatar DNA nanohybrid system in chip-on-a-phone. Sci Rep 4:4879

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thériault M, Rosiers FD (2011) Modeling Urban Dynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Yang SJ, Greenberg AM, Endsley M (2012) Social Computing, Behavioral - Cultural Modeling and Prediction: 5th International Conference, SBP 2012, College Park, MD, USA, April 3-5, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Ren F, Zhai J (2014) Contemporary Demands for Science and Technology Communication and Popularization. In: Zhai J (ed) Communication and Popularization of Science and Technology in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 127–158

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

Andrew E (2014) Quantum Dots Can Charge Your Smartphone In 30 Seconds. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/quantum-dots-can-charge-your-smartphone-30-seconds/. 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 (1979) Science and Engineering Manpower Forecasting: Its Use in Policymaking. 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

Lancaster G (2014) Understanding interdisciplinary communication and collaboration among physicians, nurses, and unlicensed assistive personnel. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Saslow L (2006) Route 110 Plan Worries Some Merchants. New York Times LI2

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