How to format your references using the eNeuro citation style

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

Yantis S (2003) Neuroscience. To see is to attend. Science 299:54–56.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brookes D, Etkina E (2010) SPORE series winner. Physical phenomena in real time. Science 330:605–606.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mellor J, Nicoll RA, Schmitz D (2002) Mediation of hippocampal mossy fiber long-term potentiation by presynaptic Ih channels. Science 295:143–147.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Adámkovics M, Wong MH, Laver C, de Pater I (2007) Widespread morning drizzle on Titan. Science 318:962–965.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crane S (2013) Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Dao. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Seipel D, Hanus M, Geske U, Bartenstein O (Eds.) (2005) Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management: 15th International Conference on Applications of Declarative Programming and Knowledge Management, INAP 2004, and 18th Workshop on Logic Programming, WLP 2004, Potsdam, Germany, March 4-6, 2004, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nayak M, Agrawal S, Srinathan K (2011) Minimal Connectivity for Unconditionally Secure Message Transmission in Synchronous Directed Networks In: Information Theoretic Security: 5th International Conference, ICITS 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 21-24, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Fehr S ed), pp32–51. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 eNeuro.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Silver Turns Bacteria Into Killer Zombies [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/silver-turns-bacteria-killer-zombies/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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 (1994) Overhead Costs: Unallowable Costs Charged by Rockwell Corporation, Rocketdyne Division (No. NSIAD-95-41). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dhantole G (2014) Evaluating provision of healthcare system in the U.S (Doctoral dissertation). Long Beach, CA: 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

Feeney K (2010) Visiting the Fish Market, Ready to Eat. New York Times NJ9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Yantis, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Brookes and Etkina, 2010; Yantis, 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Brookes and Etkina, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Adámkovics et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	eNeuro
Abbreviation	eNeuro
ISSN (online)	2373-2822
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