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

McCabe, H., 2000. Reshuffle lifts French synchrotron hopes. Nature 404, 533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Galarreta, M., Hestrin, S., 2001. Spike transmission and synchrony detection in networks of GABAergic interneurons. Science 292, 2295–2299.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kainulainen, J., Federrath, C., Henning, T., 2014. Unfolding the laws of star formation: the density distribution of molecular clouds. Science 344, 183–185.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zeilinger, A., Weihs, G., Jennewein, T., Aspelmeyer, M., 2005. Happy centenary, photon. Nature 433, 230–238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aubry, J.-F., Brînzei, N., 2015. Systems Dependability Assessment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Taniguchi, M., Hiyama, T. (Eds.), 2014. Groundwater as a Key for Adaptation to Changing Climate and Society, Global Environmental Studies. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Bhansali, A., Gogate, Y., 2015. Cushing’s Syndrome: Diagnosis and Treatment, in: Gogate, Y. (Ed.), Clinical Rounds in Endocrinology: Volume I - Adult Endocrinology. Springer India, New Delhi, pp. 95–124.

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

Hale, T., 2017. Svalbard Will Soon Have Another “Doomsday Vault” For Storing Precious Literature [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2013. K-12 Education: States’ Test Security Policies and Procedures Varied (No. GAO-13-495R). 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

Sousa, K.L., 2012. Soul Seeking: A Crossing (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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., 2009. A Fresh Pita Oasis, Plus Kebabs and Flatbreads. New York Times NJ8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McCabe, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Galarreta and Hestrin, 2001; McCabe, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Galarreta and Hestrin, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zeilinger et al., 2005)

About the journal

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