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

Gavaghan, H., 2001. Biology moves into the silicon stage. Nature 409, 964.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rinn, J., Guttman, M., 2014. RNA Function. RNA and dynamic nuclear organization. Science 345, 1240–1241.

A journal article with 3 authors

McKinnon, L., Nol, E., Juillet, C., 2013. Arctic-nesting birds find physiological relief in the face of trophic constraints. Sci. Rep. 3, 1816.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hinnebusch, B.J., Rudolph, A.E., Cherepanov, P., Dixon, J.E., Schwan, T.G., Forsberg, A., 2002. Role of Yersinia murine toxin in survival of Yersinia pestis in the midgut of the flea vector. Science 296, 733–735.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, W., Chou, X., Shi, T., Ma, Z., Bao, H., Chen, J., Chen, L., Li, D., Xue, C., 2016. Measurement Technology for Micro-Nanometer Devices. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Nazri Bajuri, M., 2013. Computational Biomechanics of the Wrist Joint, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Van, V., 2010. Advanced Microring Photonic Filter Design, in: Chremmos, I., Schwelb, O., Uzunoglu, N. (Eds.), Photonic Microresonator Research and Applications, Springer Series in Optical Sciences. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 115–138.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Watch The Annual Beluga Whale Migration LIVE [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2003. Airline Ticketing: Impact of Changes in the Airline Ticket Distribution Industry (No. GAO-03-749). 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

Gao, H., 2006. Extracting Key Features for Analysis and Recognition in Computer Vision (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Paulson, M., 2017. ‘Cats’ Revival to Close At the End of 2017. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gavaghan, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Gavaghan, 2001; Rinn and Guttman, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Rinn and Guttman, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hinnebusch et al., 2002)

About the journal

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