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

Nelson J (2001) Solar energy. Solar cells by self-assembly? Science 293:1059–1060.

A journal article with 2 authors

Alcorn JF, Kolls JK (2015) Physiology. Killer fat. Science 347:26–27.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khan SUM, Al-Shahry M, Ingler WB Jr (2002) Efficient photochemical water splitting by a chemically modified n-TiO2. Science 297:2243–2245.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bank S, Jana P, Maiti S, Guha S, Sinha AK (2014) Dermcidin isoform-2 induced nullification of the effect of acetyl salicylic acid in platelet aggregation in acute myocardial infarction. Sci Rep 4:5804.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Numai T (2010) Laser Diodes and their Applications to Communications and Information Processing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Molenberghs G (2005) Models for Discrete Longitudinal Data, Springer Series in Statistics. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Tuchscherer A (2005) Dynamical Configuration of Transparent Optical Telecommunication Networks In: 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, Operations Research Proceedings (Fleuren H, Hertog DD, Kort P eds), pp25–32. 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

Andrew E (2014) Tour Every Known Galaxy In The Universe [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/tour-every-known-galaxy-universe/ (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 (1979) Federal Program To Strengthen Developing Institutions of Higher Education Lacks Direction (No. HRD-78-170). 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

Nuno ZS (2012) Visible and mid-infrared optical studies of plasmon and phonon resonant nanoparticles using apertureless near-field scanning optical microscopy (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

Walsh MW (2014) At Hearing, Caterpillar Defends Tax Practices. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nelson, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Alcorn and Kolls, 2015; Nelson, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Alcorn and Kolls, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Bank et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

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