How to format your references using the Future Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Future 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	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

Piston DW. Research tools: Understand how it works. Nature. 484(7395), 440–441 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

Falk A, Szech N. Morals and markets. Science. 340(6133), 707–711 (2013).

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhandawat V, Reisert J, Yau K-W. Elementary response of olfactory receptor neurons to odorants. Science. 308(5730), 1931–1934 (2005).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Garrick-Bethell I, Weiss BP, Shuster DL, Buz J. Early lunar magnetism. Science. 323(5912), 356–359 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hitchner JR. Financial Valuation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Feng C. China’s Changing Legal System: Lawyers & Judges on Civil & Criminal Law. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Grüne L, Allgöwer F, Findeisen R, et al. Distributed and Networked Model Predictive Control. In: Control Theory of Digitally Networked Dynamic Systems. Lunze J (Ed.), Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg, 111–167 (2014).

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 Future Neurology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Mechanism Explains How Environment Causes Many Human Diseases [Internet]. IFLScience (2014). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mechanism-explains-how-environment-causes-many-human-diseases/.

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. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s First-Year Implementation of the Federal Manager’s Financial Integrity Act. 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

Ramirez C. Generation-Y leadership: A qualitative phenomenological study of virtual socialization relationships. (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

Rohan T. Head Games. New York Times, B15 (2015).

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	Future Neurology
Abbreviation	Future Neurol.
ISSN (print)	1479-6708
ISSN (online)	1748-6971
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology