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

Laxminarayan, R., 2014. Antibiotic effectiveness: balancing conservation against innovation. Science 345, 1299–1301.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hsieh, H.H., Jewitt, D., 2006. A population of comets in the main asteroid belt. Science 312, 561–563.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ferguson, N.M., Galvani, A.P., Bush, R.M., 2003. Ecological and immunological determinants of influenza evolution. Nature 422, 428–433.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuroda, R., Endo, B., Abe, M., Shimizu, M., 2009. Chiral blastomere arrangement dictates zygotic left-right asymmetry pathway in snails. Nature 462, 790–794.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stenholm, S., Suominen, K.-A., 2005. Quantum Approach to Informatics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Antuña, S., Barco, R. (Eds.), 2016. Essential Techniques in Elbow Surgery. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Fujii, K., 2012. Role of RANS, Hybrid and LES for Wing Flow Simulations at Relatively Low Reynolds Numbers, in: Fu, S., Haase, W., Peng, S.-H., Schwamborn, D. (Eds.), Progress in Hybrid RANS-LES Modelling: Papers Contributed to the 4th Symposium on Hybrid RANS-LES Methods, Beijing, China, September 2011, Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 45–57.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Unbelievable Facts About Our Universe [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/space-oddities-unbelievable-facts-about-our-universe/ (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, 1981. Improving the Collection of Debts Owed the Government (No. 117014). 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

Urquidi, A.J., 2015. Condolences to all of you: Late eulogies of a half-complacent birthday boy (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Hodara, S., 2014. Creatures Great, Small and Imagined. New York Times CT9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Laxminarayan, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hsieh and Jewitt, 2006; Laxminarayan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hsieh and Jewitt, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Kuroda et al., 2009)

About the journal

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