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. Yang H. China must continue the momentum of green law. Nature. 2014;509:535.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jensen K, Murray F. Intellectual property. Enhanced: intellectual property landscape of the human genome. Science. 2005;310:239–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bascompte J, Jordano P, Olesen JM. Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenance. Science. 2006;312:431–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Derry LA, Kurtz AC, Ziegler K, Chadwick OA. Biological control of terrestrial silica cycling and export fluxes to watersheds. Nature. 2005;433:728–31.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. DeRosa TF. Advances in Polymer Chemistry and Methods Reported in Recent US Patents. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

1. Ramtal D. The Essential Guide to Physics for Flash Games, Animation, and Simulations. Dobre A, editor. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Lu T, Xin F. Sound Radiation, Transmission of Orthogonally Rib-Stiffened Sandwich Structures. In: Xin F, editor. Vibro-Acoustics of Lightweight Sandwich Structures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 225–88.

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 D. Look Up! Your Guide To Some Of The Best Meteor Showers For 2017. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Information Technology: Management Improvements Needed on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Infrastructure Modernization Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Sep. Report No.: GAO-05-805.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Powers KL. Real-time video streaming: Impact on maternal anxiety and the maternal-infant bond [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. McKINLEY J, Yee V. Questioning Cuomo’s Order on Homelessness. New York Times. 2016 Jan 5;A16.

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