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

Christensen PR (2003) Formation of recent martian gullies through melting of extensive water-rich snow deposits. Nature 422:45–48

A journal article with 2 authors

Ahn S, Joyner AL (2005) In vivo analysis of quiescent adult neural stem cells responding to Sonic hedgehog. Nature 437:894–897

A journal article with 3 authors

Hainzl T, Huang S, Sauer-Eriksson AE (2002) Structure of the SRP19 RNA complex and implications for signal recognition particle assembly. Nature 417:767–771

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Veneault-Fourrey C, Barooah M, Egan M, et al (2006) Autophagic fungal cell death is necessary for infection by the rice blast fungus. Science 312:580–583

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yakushevich LV (2005) Nonlinear Physics of DNA. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Bressoud D (2016) Teaching and Learning of Calculus. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bhasker J, Chadha R (2009) Interconnect Parasitics. In: Bhasker J (ed) Static Timing Analysis for Nanometer Designs: A Practical Approach. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 101–121

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

Carpineti A (2016) The Universe Is Not Expanding In A Preferred Direction. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-universe-is-not-expanding-in-a-preferred-direction/. 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 (1980) Increasing Costs, Competition May Hinder U.S. Position of Leadership in High Energy Physics. 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

Safi Samghabadi P (2013) Kinematic analysis and control design of a retractable wheel mechanism using optimal control theory. 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

Wagner J (2017) DeGrom Bounces Back in Style, but Cespedes Exits With Soreness. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Christensen 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Christensen 2003; Ahn and Joyner 2005).

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

Two authors: (Ahn and Joyner 2005)
Three or more authors: (Veneault-Fourrey et al. 2006)

About the journal

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