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. Smaglik P. Cash crisis in the corridor. Nature. 2003;423:203.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Nussenzweig MC, Mellman I. Ralph Steinman (1943-2011). Nature. 2011;478:460.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Omabegho T, Sha R, Seeman NC. A bipedal DNA Brownian motor with coordinated legs. Science. 2009;324:67–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Teixeira A, Tahiri-Alaoui A, West S, Thomas B, Ramadass A, Martianov I, et al. Autocatalytic RNA cleavage in the human beta-globin pre-mRNA promotes transcription termination. Nature. 2004;432:526–30.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Mainardi RL. Harnessing the Power of Continuous Auditing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Chan CC. Problem Gambling in Hong Kong and Macao: Etiology, Prevalence and Treatment. Li WWL, Leung ECI, editors. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Silva Filho WJ. Intersubjectivity: Commentary on Intersubjectivity. In: Marsico G, editor. Jerome S Bruner beyond 100: Cultivating Possibilities. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 65–72.

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. Luntz S. Enormous Asteroid Set To Fly Past Earth Tomorrow [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/ont-panic-passing-asteroid-really-big/

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. Federal Program To Strengthen Developing Institutions of Higher Education Lacks Direction. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Mar. Report No.: 108907.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dubin-Thaler BJ. Evidence for hierarchical control of conserved, discrete motility types in crawling motility [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2008.

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. Wilson M. In Pursuit of Influence (and Muggers): Farrell’s 42 Years in Politics. New York Times. 2017 Aug 28;A21.

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