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

Eleftheriades, G.V., 2014. Electronics: Protecting the weak from the strong. Nature 505, 490–491.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aldy, J.E., Stavins, R.N., 2012. Climate change. Climate negotiators create an opportunity for scholars. Science 337, 1043–1044.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ciosk, R., DePalma, M., Priess, J.R., 2006. Translational regulators maintain totipotency in the Caenorhabditis elegans germline. Science 311, 851–853.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tulevski, G.S., Myers, M.B., Hybertsen, M.S., et al., 2005. Formation of catalytic metal-molecule contacts. Science 309, 591–594.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hersent, O., Petit, J.-P., Gurle, D., 2005. Beyond VoIP Protocols. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Borst, R. de, Sadowski, T. (Eds.), 2009. Lecture Notes on Composite Materials: Current Topics and Achievements, Solid Mechanics And Its Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Jauch, E.C., Holmstedt, C., 2015. Intravenous Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke: Results of Large, Randomized Clinical Trials, in: Lyden, P.D. (Ed.), Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Stroke. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 95–111.

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

Hamilton, K., 2017. New Powerful Telescopes Allow Direct Imaging Of Nascent Galaxies 12 Billion Light-Years Away [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-powerful-telescopes-allow-direct-imaging-of-nascent-galaxies-12-billion-light-years-away/ (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, 1980. Use of Computerized Information for Local and National Health Care Planning Purposes (No. 117533). 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

Zatolokin, A., 2015. Stylistic approaches for oboists in the operatic works of J. Hasse (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Hubbard, B., Almosawa, S., 2017. Somali Migrants’ Trek Becomes Scene of Horror. New York Times A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eleftheriades, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Aldy and Stavins, 2012; Eleftheriades, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Aldy and Stavins, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Tulevski et al., 2005)

About the journal

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