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

McCarty, M., 2003. Discovering genes are made of DNA. Nature 421, 406.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fienberg, S.E., Prewitt, K., 2010. Save your census. Nature 466, 1043.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tucker, S.A., Hanuscin, D.L., Bearnes, C.J., 2008. The pipeline. Igniting girls’ interest in science. Science 319, 1621–1622.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Arnalds, O., Thorarinsdottir, E.F., Thorsson, J., Waldhauserova, P.D., Agustsdottir, A.M., 2013. An extreme wind erosion event of the fresh Eyjafjallajökull 2010 volcanic ash. Sci. Rep. 3, 1257.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saksena, F.B., 2008. Color Atlas of Local and Systemic Signs of Cardiovascular Disease. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Karantininis, K., 2007. Vertical Markets and Cooperative Hierarchies: The Role of Cooperatives in the Agri-Food Industry. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, C., Castell, M.R., 2016. Ultrathin Oxide Films on Au(111) Substrates, in: Netzer, F.P., Fortunelli, A. (Eds.), Oxide Materials at the Two-Dimensional Limit, Springer Series in Materials Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 149–168.

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

Davis, J., 2015. New Species Of Monkey Discovered In The Remote Peruvian Rainforest [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-titi-monkey-discovered-remote-amazonian-peru/ (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, 1985. Second-Year Implementation of the Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act in the Department of Education (No. HRD-85-78). 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

Brightbill, R.G., 2012. Bradenton, FL: A Patchwork City (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Hodgman, J., 2017. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McCarty, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Fienberg and Prewitt, 2010; McCarty, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Fienberg and Prewitt, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Arnalds 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