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

Chi KR (2015) Masculinity: Men’s makeover. Nature 526:S12-3

A journal article with 2 authors

Denchi EL, de Lange T (2007) Protection of telomeres through independent control of ATM and ATR by TRF2 and POT1. Nature 448:1068–1071

A journal article with 3 authors

Hill EW, Jobling MA, Bradley DG (2000) Y-chromosome variation and Irish origins. Nature 404:351–352

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Smith DM, Cusack S, Colman AW, et al (2007) Improved surface temperature prediction for the coming decade from a global climate model. Science 317:796–799

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kappe CO, Stadler A, Dallinger D (2012) Microwaves in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Nicola RD, Hennicker R (eds) (2015) Software, Services, and Systems: Essays Dedicated to Martin Wirsing on the Occasion of His Retirement from the Chair of Programming and Software Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Le-Klähn D-T (2016) Sustainable Tourist Mobility: Implications for Urban Destination Management. In: Wulfhorst G, Klug S (eds) Sustainable Mobility in Metropolitan Regions: Insights from Interdisciplinary Research for Practice Application. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, pp 55–63

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) There Has Been A Mysterious Disruption Of Stratospheric Winds. 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 (1989) Transportation: Bibliography of GAO Documents, January 1985-December 1988. 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

Gillespie L (2014) Trust in Leadership: Investigation of Andragogical Learning and Implications for Student Placement Outcomes. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

Vlasic B, Chapman MM (2015) Smaller Pay Gap in New Contract at Fiat Chrysler. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chi 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Denchi and de Lange 2007; Chi 2015).

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

Two authors: (Denchi and de Lange 2007)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al. 2007)

About the journal

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