How to format your references using the Invertebrate Neuroscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Invertebrate Neuroscience. 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

Schiermeier Q (2002) Saddam gives viewers double vision. Nature 419:421

A journal article with 2 authors

Houweling AR, Brecht M (2008) Behavioural report of single neuron stimulation in somatosensory cortex. Nature 451:65–68

A journal article with 3 authors

Soares L, Parisi M, Bonini NM (2014) Axon injury and regeneration in the adult Drosophila. Sci Rep 4:6199

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Boccaccio C, Sabatino G, Medico E, et al (2005) The MET oncogene drives a genetic programme linking cancer to haemostasis. Nature 434:396–400

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meier HB, Marthinsen JE, Gantenbein PA (2012) Swiss Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rioux R (ed) (2010) Model Systems in Catalysis: Single Crystals to Supported Enzyme Mimics, 1st edn. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Hu W, Zha L (2016) Theoretical Aspects of Polymer Crystallization. In: Mitchell GR, Tojeira A (eds) Controlling the Morphology of Polymers: Multiple Scales of Structure and Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 101–143

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 Invertebrate Neuroscience.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Mysteriously Hot “Blue Hook” Stars Explained. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1995) Direct Student Loans: Selected Characteristics of Participating Schools. 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

Visweswaran K (2017) Face Recognition Technique for Blurred/Unclear Images. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Greenhouse L (2007) Case Touches a 2nd Amendment Nerve. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier 2002; Houweling and Brecht 2008).

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

Two authors: (Houweling and Brecht 2008)
Three or more authors: (Boccaccio et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Invertebrate Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Invert. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	1354-2516
ISSN (online)	1439-1104
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Developmental Neuroscience