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

Hudson T (2011) Genome-sequencing anniversary. Genomics and clinical relevance. Science 331:547.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cao X, Südhof TC (2001) A transcriptionally [correction of transcriptively] active complex of APP with Fe65 and histone acetyltransferase Tip60. Science 293:115–120.

A journal article with 3 authors

Clevers H, Loh KM, Nusse R (2014) Stem cell signaling. An integral program for tissue renewal and regeneration: Wnt signaling and stem cell control. Science 346:1248012.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Han YL, Hu J, Genin GM, Lu TJ, Xu F (2014) BioPen: direct writing of functional materials at the point of care. Sci Rep 4:4872.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Welsh AH (1996) Aspects of Statistical Inference: Welsh/Aspects, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Smith H, McDermott JC (Eds.) (2016) The Foxfire Approach: Inspiration for Classrooms and Beyond. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Alviano M, Faber W (2015) Supportedly Stable Answer Sets for Logic Programs with Generalized Atoms In: Web Reasoning and Rule Systems: 9th International Conference, RR 2015, Berlin, Germany, August 4-5, 2015, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ten Cate B, Mileo A eds), pp30–44. 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 (2014) Check Out This Video of a Complete Heart Transplant! [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/check-out-video-complete-heart-transplant/ (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 (1996) School Facilities: America’s Schools Report Differing Conditions (No. HEHS-96-103). 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

Igualada MO (2015) The beliefs of advanced placement teachers regarding equity and access to advanced placement courses: A mixed-methods study (Doctoral dissertation). Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic 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

Barnes B, Abrams R, Kantor J (2017) Sharing A Name Of Infamy. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hudson, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Cao and Südhof, 2001; Hudson, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Cao and Südhof, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Han et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

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