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

Crow JM (2012) Psoriasis uncovered. Nature 492:S50-1

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuncel NR, Hezlett SA (2007) Assessment. Standardized tests predict graduate students’ success. Science 315:1080–1081

A journal article with 3 authors

Lewis SL, Edwards DP, Galbraith D (2015) Increasing human dominance of tropical forests. Science 349:827–832

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Alemseged Z, Spoor F, Kimbel WH, et al (2006) A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature 443:296–301

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis TB (2011) Audel Industrial Multi-Craft Mini-Ref. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Frishman D, Valencia A (2008) Modern Genome Annotation: The BioSapiens Network. Springer, Vienna

A chapter in an edited book

Cetinkaya B (2011) Managing Outside Your Organisation. In: Cetinkaya B, Ewer G, Klaas-Wissing T, et al (eds) Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Practical Ideas for Moving Towards Best Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 117–151

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) Huge Crater Mysteriously Appears In Siberia. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/huge-crater-mysteriously-appears-siberia/. 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) GSA Lease Prospectuses Provide a Reasonable Basis for the Congress To Approve Proposed Space Acquisitions. 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

Griffin MG (2008) The lived experience of first line managers during planned organizational change: A phenomenological study of one firm in the residential construction industry. 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

Wagner J (2017) Cubs Open Title Defense With a One-Two Punch by Bryant and Rizzo. New York Times D3

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