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

Marder, T.B., 2006. Chemistry. Boron goes on the attack. Science 314, 69–70.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts, G., Sherratt, T.N., 2002. Behaviorial evolution: does similarity breed cooperation? Nature 418, 499–500; discussion 500.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palikaras, K., Lionaki, E., Tavernarakis, N., 2015. Coordination of mitophagy and mitochondrial biogenesis during ageing in C. elegans. Nature 521, 525–528.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mak, W., Nesterova, T.B., de Napoles, M., et al., 2004. Reactivation of the paternal X chromosome in early mouse embryos. Science 303, 666–669.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGrath, A.E., 2011. Luther’s Theology of the Cross. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Sun, F., Hu, D., Liu, H. (Eds.), 2014. Foundations and Practical Applications of Cognitive Systems and Information Processing: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Cognitive Systems and Information Processing, Beijing, China, Dec 2012 (CSIP2012), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Yan, G., Yu, J., Chen, C., et al., 2014. Virtual Backbone Construction Algorithms Based on Protocol Interference Model, in: Sun, L., Ma, H., Hong, F. (Eds.), Advances in Wireless Sensor Networks: 7th China Conference, CWSN 2013, Qingdao, China, October 17-19, 2013. Revised Selected Papers, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 31–40.

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. Chronic Pot Smoking Associated With Reduced Gray Matter, But Increased Connections [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/chronic-pot-smoking-associated-brain-changes/ (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, 2010. University Research: Policies for the Reimbursement of Indirect Costs Need to Be Updated (No. GAO-10-937). 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

Smith, T., 2012. Outsider leadership transitions: A phenomenological study of Army Reserve General Officers (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Kishkovsky, S., 2004. In Aisle 3, Merchandise and Perhaps a Masterpiece; Russia’s New Rich Amass Art Collections, Displaying Them in Varied Ways. New York Times E1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marder, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Marder, 2006; Roberts and Sherratt, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Roberts and Sherratt, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Mak et al., 2004)

About the journal

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