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

Carpenter S (2007) Science careers. Carving a career in translational research. Science 317:966–967

A journal article with 2 authors

Nilsson J, Payne DN (2011) Physics. High-power fiber lasers. Science 332:921–922

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim VN, Kataoka N, Dreyfuss G (2001) Role of the nonsense-mediated decay factor hUpf3 in the splicing-dependent exon-exon junction complex. Science 293:1832–1836

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang J, Yu C, Wang L, et al (2014) Energy barrier at the N719-dye/CsSnI₃ interface for photogenerated holes in dye-sensitized solar cells. Sci Rep 4:6954

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGrath AE (2011) Luther’s Theology of the Cross. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Fleuren H, Hertog DD, Kort P (2005) Operations Research Proceedings 2004: Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR). Jointly Organized with the Netherlands Society for Operations Research (NGB) Tilburg, September 1–3, 2004. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Dolama MV, Rahbar AG (2010) Performance Evaluation of the Number of Database Accesses in Cellular Networks. In: Özcan A, Chaki N, Nagamalai D (eds) Recent Trends in Wireless and Mobile Networks: Second International Conference, WiMo 2010, Ankara, Turkey, June 26-28, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 46–58

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

Carpineti A (2016) The Latest Planet Hunter is A Dreaming Robot. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-latest-planet-hunter-is-a-dreaming-robot/. 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 (1972) Reply to the Health, Education, and Welfare on Recommendations Made in the GAO Report to the Congress. 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

Hernandez A (2012) Impact of the Child and Family Services Improvement Act of 2006 on monthly caseworker visits to children in Los Angeles County on California’s foster care system. 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

Kitfield J (2017) The Lingering Stench of Torture. 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

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