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

Smil, V., 2000. Magic beans. Nature 407, 567.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dutcher, J.R., Ediger, M.D., 2008. Materials science. Glass surfaces not so glassy. Science 319, 577–578.

A journal article with 3 authors

Olveczky, B.P., Baccus, S.A., Meister, M., 2003. Segregation of object and background motion in the retina. Nature 423, 401–408.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, X., Jiao, L., Sheng, K., Li, C., Dai, L., Shi, G., 2013. Solution-processable graphene nanomeshes with controlled pore structures. Sci. Rep. 3, 1996.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Chevalier, F., Lesselier, D., Staraj, R., 2011. Non-standard Antennas. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Abate, M., 2010. Holomorphic Dynamical Systems: Cetraro, Italy, July 7-12, 2008, Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sternberg, R.J., 2014. A Model for Instruction and Assessment of Cognitive Readiness, in: O’Neil, H.F., Perez, R.S., Baker, E.L. (Eds.), Teaching and Measuring Cognitive Readiness. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 71–92.

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., 2013. The Smithsonian Introduces 3D Exhibits [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/smithsonian-introduces-3d-exhibits/ (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, 2016. Federal Research Grants: Opportunities Remain for Agencies to Streamline Administrative Requirements (No. GAO-16-573). 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

Kim, H., 2017. Empathy in the Early Childhood Classroom: Exploring Teachers’ Perceptions, Understanding and Practices (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled B Y, 2004. Arts, Briefly; Rachmaninoff Score Unsold. New York Times E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smil, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dutcher and Ediger, 2008; Smil, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Dutcher and Ediger, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

About the journal

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