How to format your references using the European Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Neurology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Byatt AS. Fiction informed by science. Nature. 2005 Mar;434(7031):294–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang D, Lu L. Anti-correlation of summer/winter monsoons? Nature. 2007 Nov;450(7168):E7-8; discussion E8-9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hainzl T, Huang S, Sauer-Eriksson AE. Structure of the SRP19 RNA complex and implications for signal recognition particle assembly. Nature. 2002 Jun;417(6890):767–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Azzouz M, Ralph GS, Storkebaum E, Walmsley LE, Mitrophanous KA, Kingsman SM, et al. VEGF delivery with retrogradely transported lentivector prolongs survival in a mouse ALS model. Nature. 2004 May;429(6990):413–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kumacheva E, Garstecki P. Microfluidic Reactors for Polymer Particles. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Kolobov AV. Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Bozovic I. Possible Jahn–Teller Effect and Strong Electron–Phonon Coupling in Beryllium Hydride. In: Bussmann-Holder A, Keller H, editors. High Tc Superconductors and Related Transition Metal Oxides: Special Contributions in Honor of K. Alex Müller on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007; pp 43–55.

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 European Neurology.

Blog post

Hale T. Scientists Discover Parrot Fossil In The Most Unlikely Of Places: Siberia [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Oct [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-parrot-fossil-in-the-most-unlikely-of-places-siberia/

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. Aviation Security: TSA’s Managed Inclusion Process Expands Passenger Expedited Screening, But TSA Has Not Tested Its Security Effectiveness. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Barkis B. How Do Highly Engaged Employees and Managers Find Meaning in Their Work? 2017

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

Grisham J. John Grisham’s Suggestions for Writing Popular Fiction. New York Times. 2017 May;BR31.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	European Neurology
Abbreviation	Eur. Neurol.
ISSN (print)	0014-3022
ISSN (online)	1421-9913
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology