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

Amelino-Camelia G (2001) A phenomenological description of space-time noise in quantum gravity. Nature 410:1065–1067

A journal article with 2 authors

Song WJ, Tezcan FA (2014) A designed supramolecular protein assembly with in vivo enzymatic activity. Science 346:1525–1528

A journal article with 3 authors

Berger AH, Knudson AG, Pandolfi PP (2011) A continuum model for tumour suppression. Nature 476:163–169

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mameli M, Balland B, Luján R, Lüscher C (2007) Rapid synthesis and synaptic insertion of GluR2 for mGluR-LTD in the ventral tegmental area. Science 317:530–533

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davison M (2011) Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lin S, Huang X (eds) (2011) Advanced Research on Computer Education, Simulation and Modeling: International Conference, CESM 2011, Wuhan, China, June 18-19, 2011. Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Aloia J, Shieh A (2013) Intestinal Calcium Absorption Efficiency in Women and the Influence of Menopause. In: Hollins Martin CJ, Watson RR, Preedy VR (eds) Nutrition and Diet in Menopause. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 67–78

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

Andrew E (2015) Eye Tracking Is The Next Frontier Of Human-Computer Interaction. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/eye-tracking-next-frontier-human-computer-interaction/. 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 (2007) Older Driver Safety: Knowledge Sharing Should Help States Prepare for Increase in Older Driver Population. 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

Lam NN (2013) The effect of racial disparities and adult supervision in Human Papillomavirus knowledge among female adolescents. 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

Pilon M (2013) Kuwaiti Sheik’s Influence in Olympic World Grows. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Amelino-Camelia 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Amelino-Camelia 2001; Song and Tezcan 2014).

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

Two authors: (Song and Tezcan 2014)
Three or more authors: (Mameli et al. 2007)

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

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