How to format your references using the Fluids and Barriers of the CNS citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fluids and Barriers of the CNS. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Brody H. Human papillomavirus. Nature. 2012;488:S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schlein Y, Jacobson RL. Hunger tolerance and Leishmania in sandflies. Nature. 2001;414:168.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Menz MHM, Dixon KW, Hobbs RJ. Ecology. Hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration. Science. 2013;339:526–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lamoreux JF, Morrison JC, Ricketts TH, Olson DM, Dinerstein E, McKnight MW, et al. Global tests of biodiversity concordance and the importance of endemism. Nature. 2006;440:212–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Du D-Z, Ko K-I. Theory of Computational Complexity. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Richter C, Lincot D, Gueymard CA, editors. Solar Energy. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hallani SE, Ratbi I. Familial Gliomas: Role of TP53 Gene. In: Hayat MA, editor. Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 2: Gliomas: Glioblastoma (Part 2). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011. p. 39–45.

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 Fluids and Barriers of the CNS.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Earliest Stars 150 Million Years Older Than Previously Believed [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/earliest-stars-150-million-years-younger-previously-believed/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Examination of Possible “Buy-In” by Garrett AiResearch. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Feb. Report No.: PSAD-77-73.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nellenbach KM. Contributions of oral language, problem-solving, and reading attitudes to young adolescents’ silent reading comprehension [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2010.

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

1. Crow K. On Chinatown’s Basketball Courts, It’s the Year of Yao. New York Times. 2003 Apr 6;144.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
Abbreviation	Fluids Barriers CNS
ISSN (online)	2045-8118
Scope	General Medicine Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Developmental Neuroscience Neurology