How to format your references using the Experimental Neurology citation style

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

Elert, E., 2014. Aetiology: Searching for schizophrenia’s roots. Nature 508, S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Padhi, A., Ma, L., 2014. Genetic and epidemiological insights into the emergence of peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) across Asia and Africa. Sci. Rep. 4, 7040.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lovejoy, C.O., Heiple, K.G., Meindl, R.S., 2001. Palaeoanthropology: Did our ancestors knuckle-walk? Nature 410, 325–326.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vanlandewijck, M., He, L., Mäe, M.A., Andrae, J., Ando, K., Del Gaudio, F., Nahar, K., Lebouvier, T., Laviña, B., Gouveia, L., Sun, Y., Raschperger, E., Räsänen, M., Zarb, Y., Mochizuki, N., Keller, A., Lendahl, U., Betsholtz, C., 2018. A molecular atlas of cell types and zonation in the brain vasculature. Nature 554, 475–480.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, W., Xiao, H., Wang, Q., Zhao, L., Zhu, M., 2016. Integrated Vehicle Dynamics and Control. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Wagner, H., Bauer, R., Melchart, D., Xiao, P.-G., Staudinger, A. (Eds.), 2011. Chromatographic Fingerprint Analysis of Herbal Medicines: Thin-layer and High Performance Liquid Chromatography of Chinese Drugs, Second, Revised and Enlarged Edition. ed. Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Kensche, D., Quix, C., Chatti, M.A., Jarke, M., 2007. GeRoMe: A Generic Role Based Metamodel for Model Management, in: Spaccapietra, S., Atzeni, P., Fages, F., Hacid, M.-S., Kifer, M., Mylopoulos, J., Pernici, B., Shvaiko, P., Trujillo, J., Zaihrayeu, I. (Eds.), Journal on Data Semantics VIII, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 82–117.

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 Neurology.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Humans Can “See” Individual Photons, Claims Study [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/humans-can-see-individual-photons-claims-study/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1982. Use of Federal Employees as Personal Aides to Federal Officials in Selected Departments and Agencies (No. FPCD-82-52). 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

Kelleher, A., 2017. Gendered Intent to Turnover Resulting from Workplace Bullying in Nursing and Medical Fields (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Goldstein, J., Palmer, E., 2016. A Mysterious Death on the Upper East Side Unsettles Residents. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Elert, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Elert, 2014; Padhi and Ma, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Padhi and Ma, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Vanlandewijck et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental Neurology
Abbreviation	Exp. Neurol.
ISSN (print)	0014-4886
Scope	Developmental Neuroscience Neurology