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

Jones CW (2003) Materials science. Zeolites go organic. Science 300:439–440.

A journal article with 2 authors

Deming D, Seager S (2009) Light and shadow from distant worlds. Nature 462:301–306.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fu Y, Xu Y, Chen H (2014) Additional modes in a waveguide system of zero-index-metamaterials with defects. Sci Rep 4:6428.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Garaycoechea JI, Crossan GP, Langevin F, Mulderrig L, Louzada S, Yang F, Guilbaud G, Park N, Roerink S, Nik-Zainal S, Stratton MR, Patel KJ (2018) Alcohol and endogenous aldehydes damage chromosomes and mutate stem cells. Nature 553:171–177.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Colin A (2005) Fixed Income Attribution. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Stacy HM, Lee W-C (Eds.) (2013) Economic Justice: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives, AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Isken M, Hein A (2016) Continuous Geriatric Assessments Supported by a Mobile Service Robot: Movement Analysis In: Ambient Assisted Living: 8. AAL-Kongress 2015,Frankfurt/M, April 29-30. April, 2015, Advanced Technologies and Societal Change (Wichert R, Klausing H eds), pp37–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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

Andrew D (2016) What On Earth Are They Doing To Our Chocolate Bars? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/what-on-earth-are-they-doing-to-our-chocolate-bars/ (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 (2012) Aviation Security: Actions Needed to Address Challenges and Potential Vulnerabilities Related to Securing Inbound Air Cargo (No. GAO-12-632). 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

Tuschall A (2017) Exploration of the Relationship Between Implicit Theory of Intelligence and Employability (Doctoral dissertation). Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Brantley B (2017) Prospero, Confined Yet Commanding. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jones, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Deming and Seager, 2009; Jones, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Deming and Seager, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Garaycoechea et al., 2018)

About the journal

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