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. Schwartz M. Perspective: incision revision. Nature. 2014;516:S17.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ma F, Wills BJ. Discovery of hidden blazars. Science. 2001;292:2050–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wall DH, Nielsen UN, Six J. Soil biodiversity and human health. Nature. 2015;528:69–76.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Weiss LA, Arking DE, Gene Discovery Project of Johns Hopkins & the Autism Consortium, Daly MJ, Chakravarti A. A genome-wide linkage and association scan reveals novel loci for autism. Nature. 2009;461:802–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bishop CA. Roll-to-Roll Vacuum Deposition of Barrier Coatings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Lambert JDB, Kadyrzhanov KK, editors. Safety Related Issues of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage: Strategies For Safe Storage Of Spent Fuel. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wriggers P. Mixed Finite Element Methods - Theory and Discretization. In: Carstensen C, Wriggers P, editors. Mixed Finite Element Technologies. Vienna: Springer; 2009. p. 131–77.

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. Do Try This At Home [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/do-try-home/

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. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Light Truck Average Fuel Economy Standard, Model Year 1999. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Apr. Report No.: OGC-97-36.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pham MM-X. Flymed Pharmacy, LLC, Home Delivery Services a Business Plan [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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 JC Jr, Alani H. Man Who Pushed Passenger Who Died on Subway Tracks Is Acquitted. New York Times. 2017 Jul 17;A19.

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

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