How to format your references using the Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy. 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	Download the output style file
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

O’Rahilly, S., 2009. Human genetics illuminates the paths to metabolic disease. Nature 462, 307–314.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheung, G.Y.C., Otto, M., 2015. Microbiology: Diverted on the way to memory. Nature 517, 28–29.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bascompte, J., Jordano, P., Olesen, J.M., 2006. Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenance. Science 312, 431–433.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schell, A.W., Kaschke, J., Fischer, J., Henze, R., Wolters, J., Wegener, M., Benson, O., 2013. Three-dimensional quantum photonic elements based on single nitrogen vacancy-centres in laser-written microstructures. Sci. Rep. 3, 1577.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prydie, D., Hewitt, I., 2015. Practical Physiotherapy for Small Animal Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Daoud, S.S. (Ed.), 2008. Cancer Proteomics: From Bench to Bedside, Cancer Drug Discovery and Development. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Shiraishi, M., Ito, A., 2010. Disturbance Observer Design Based on Frequency Domain, in: Higuchi, T., Suzumori, K., Tadokoro, S. (Eds.), Next-Generation Actuators Leading Breakthroughs. Springer, London, pp. 31–43.

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 Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2017. New Planetary Model Suggests More Gas Giant Planets Are Yet To Be Found [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-planetary-model-suggests-more-gas-giant-planets-are-yet-to-be-found/ (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, 1990. Submarine Technology: Transition Plans Needed to Realize Gains From DOD Advanced Research (No. IMTEC-90-21). 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

Gleason, R., 2013. Nanosphere lithography applied to magnetic thin films (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

Greenhouse, L., 2008. Court Allows Suit Against Drug Maker. New York Times A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (O’Rahilly, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Cheung and Otto, 2015; O’Rahilly, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Cheung and Otto, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Schell et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy
Abbreviation	J. Chem. Neuroanat.
ISSN (print)	0891-0618
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience