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

Stafford N (2010) History: The changing notion of food. Nature 468:S16-7

A journal article with 2 authors

Scotland RW, Sanderson MJ (2004) The significance of few versus many in the tree of life. Science 303:643

A journal article with 3 authors

Mercader J, Panger M, Boesch C (2002) Excavation of a chimpanzee stone tool site in the African rainforest. Science 296:1452–1455

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mones E, Araújo NAM, Vicsek T, Herrmann HJ (2014) Shock waves on complex networks. Sci Rep 4:4949

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carter KB (2014) Actionable Intelligence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bourdin B (2008) The Variational Approach to Fracture. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Diercks GFH, Pas HH (2016) Indirect Immunofluorescence Microscopy. In: Jonkman MF (ed) Autoimmune Bullous Diseases: Text and Review. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 47–55

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

Fang J (2015) How Do Mosquitoes Walk On Water? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/special-leg-adaptations-help-mosquitoes-walk-water/. 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 (2011) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration: Additional Actions Needed to Strengthen Grants Management. 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

Parhad A (2015) Energy scavenging using piezoelectric sensors to power in pavement intelligent vehicle detection systems. 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

Rothenberg B (2017) An Upstart Relishes, and Rues, a Showcase. New York Times B13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stafford 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Scotland and Sanderson 2004; Stafford 2010).

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

Two authors: (Scotland and Sanderson 2004)
Three or more authors: (Mones et al. 2014)

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