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

Kysar D (2011) Supreme Court ruling is good, bad and ugly. Nature 474:421.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dobbelaere J, Barral Y (2004) Spatial coordination of cytokinetic events by compartmentalization of the cell cortex. Science 305:393–396.

A journal article with 3 authors

Müller H, Peters A, Chu S (2010) A precision measurement of the gravitational redshift by the interference of matter waves. Nature 463:926–929.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Miller LH, Baruch DI, Marsh K, Doumbo OK (2002) The pathogenic basis of malaria. Nature 415:673–679.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ventre D (2013) Information Warfare. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sahin A (Ed.) (2015) A Practice-based Model of STEM Teaching: STEM Students on the Stage (SOS)TM. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Lehtinen E, Brezovszky B, Rodríguez-Aflecht G, Lehtinen H, Hannula-Sormunen MM, McMullen J, Pongsakdi N, Veermans K, Jaakkola T (2015) Number Navigation Game (NNG): Design Principles and Game Description In: Describing and Studying Domain-Specific Serious Games (Torbeyns J, Lehtinen E, Elen J eds), pp45–61. 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 E (2015) Survival of the Fittest: How Brain Tumours Adapt Through Complex Ecosystems [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/survival-fittest-how-brain-tumours-adapt-through-complex-ecosystems/ (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 (2004) American Samoa: Accountability for Key Federal Grants Needs Improvement (No. GAO-05-41). 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

Lynch SD (2008) Distortion of low-frequency acoustic signals by interaction with the moving ocean surface (Doctoral dissertation). La Jolla, CA: University of California San Diego.

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

Rothenberg B (2017) Another Marathon Match Win by Nadal Sets Up Final With Federer. New York Times D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kysar, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Dobbelaere and Barral, 2004; Kysar, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Dobbelaere and Barral, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Miller et al., 2002)

About the journal

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