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

Fischer KM (2002) Waning buoyancy in the crustal roots of old mountains. Nature 417:933–936

A journal article with 2 authors

Parker HG, Ostrander EA (2014) Cancer. Hiding in plain view--an ancient dog in the modern world. Science 343:376–378

A journal article with 3 authors

Poolman B, Geertsma ER, Slotboom D-J (2007) Biochemistry. A missing link in membrane protein evolution. Science 315:1229–1231

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Miles LA, Crespi GAN, Doughty L, Parker MW (2013) Bapineuzumab captures the N-terminus of the Alzheimer’s disease amyloid-beta peptide in a helical conformation. Sci Rep 3:1302

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowe P (2015) Essential Statistics for the Pharmaceutical Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Renda ME, Bursa M, Holzinger A, Khuri S (eds) (2016) Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics: 7th International Conference, ITBAM 2016, Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Freitas AA (2008) A Review of evolutionary Algorithms for Data Mining. In: Maimon O, Rokach L (eds) Soft Computing for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 79–111

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) Head Transplant Surgeon Reveals Bizarre New Studies And Breakthroughs. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/head-transplant-surgeon-reveals-bizarre-new-studies-and-breakthroughs/. 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 (2015) Telecommunications: FCC Should Evaluate the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Lifeline Program. 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

Tu K-H (2017) Structural and Functional Analysis of Apolipoprotein E3/E4 Hybrid. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Feeney K (2008) Freshness City Dwellers Hunger For. New York Times NJ11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fischer 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Fischer 2002; Parker and Ostrander 2014).

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

Two authors: (Parker and Ostrander 2014)
Three or more authors: (Miles et al. 2013)

About the journal

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