How to format your references using the Experimental Brain Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental Brain Research. 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

Sandman PM (2009) Pandemics: good hygiene is not enough. Nature 459:322–323

A journal article with 2 authors

Yanina SV, Rosso KM (2008) Linked reactivity at mineral-water interfaces through bulk crystal conduction. Science 320:218–222

A journal article with 3 authors

Prahlad V, Pilgrim D, Goodwin EB (2003) Roles for mating and environment in C. elegans sex determination. Science 302:1046–1049

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Velikov KP, Christova CG, Dullens RPA, van Blaaderen A (2002) Layer-by-layer growth of binary colloidal crystals. Science 296:106–109

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vaseghi SV (2001) Advanced Digital Signal Processing and Noise Reduction. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Morari M, Thiele L (eds) (2005) Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control: 8th International Workshop, HSCC 2005, Zurich, Switzerland, March 9-11, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kunz JS (2013) Clinical Manifestations of Atherothrombosis. In: Taylor AJ, Villines TC (eds) Atherosclerosis: Clinical Perspectives Through Imaging. Springer, London, pp 45–58

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 Experimental Brain Research.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Most Of Us Fit Into Four Personality Groups – Which One Are You? In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1977) Cooperative Actions Result in More Economical Computer Acquisition and Improved Security at the New Orleans Computer Center. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reese NE (2015) The Ecomorphology of White-tailed Deer Lower Limb Bones Through the Holocene in Central North America. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Gorman J (2016) The Bee Stalkers. New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sandman 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Yanina and Rosso 2008; Sandman 2009).

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

Two authors: (Yanina and Rosso 2008)
Three or more authors: (Velikov et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental Brain Research
Abbreviation	Exp. Brain Res.
ISSN (print)	0014-4819
ISSN (online)	1432-1106
Scope	General Neuroscience