How to format your references using the Handbook of Clinical Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Handbook of Clinical 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

Lynch-Stieglitz, J., 2004. Ocean science. Hemispheric asynchrony of abrupt climate change. Science 304, 1919–1920.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carlsson, F., Brown, E.J., 2009. Cell biology. The art of making an exit. Science 323, 1678–1679.

A journal article with 3 authors

Altshuler, D., Daly, M.J., Lander, E.S., 2008. Genetic mapping in human disease. Science 322, 881–888.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kramer, M., Lyne, A.G., O’Brien, J.T., et al., 2006. A periodically active pulsar giving insight into magnetospheric physics. Science 312, 549–551.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khatib, T., Elmenreich, W., 2016. Modeling of Photovoltaic Systems Using MATLAB ®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Maiuri, M.C., De Stefano, D. (Eds.), 2016. Autophagy Networks in Inflammation, Progress in Inflammation Research. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Fiegl, M., 2016. Therapeutic management of acute myeloid leukemia, in: Hiddemann, W. (Ed.), Handbook of Acute Leukemia. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 41–51.

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 Handbook of Clinical Neurology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Rocks Formed From Plastic Found On Beach [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/rocks-formed-plastic-found-beach/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2005. Federal Family Education Loan Program: More Oversight Is Needed for Schools That Are Lenders (No. GAO-05-184). 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

Hasbini, M.A., 2017. The Great Recession of 2007 and the Housing Market Crash: Why Did So Many Builders Fail? Lessons for the Local Homebuilding Industry (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

David Goodman, J., White, R., 2015. 2nd Victim Found in Rubble of Brooklyn Building That Exploded. New York Times A26.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Lynch-Stieglitz, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Carlsson and Brown, 2009; Lynch-Stieglitz, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Carlsson and Brown, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Kramer et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Handbook of Clinical Neurology
ISSN (print)	0072-9752
Scope