How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 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

Haidt, J. (2007). The new synthesis in moral psychology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5827), 998–1002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bedalov, A., & Simon, J. A. (2004). Neuroscience. NAD to the rescue. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5686), 954–955.

A journal article with 3 authors

Redhu, S. K., Castronovo, M., & Nicholson, A. W. (2013). Digital imprinting of RNA recognition and processing on a self-assembled nucleic acid matrix. Scientific Reports, 3, 2550.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Esplugues, E., Huber, S., Gagliani, N., Hauser, A. E., Town, T., Wan, Y. Y., O’Connor, W., Jr, Rongvaux, A., Van Rooijen, N., Haberman, A. M., Iwakura, Y., Kuchroo, V. K., Kolls, J. K., Bluestone, J. A., Herold, K. C., & Flavell, R. A. (2011). Control of TH17 cells occurs in the small intestine. Nature, 475(7357), 514–518.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Roy, D., & Rao, G. V. (2012). Elements of Structural Dynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Collard, M. (Ed.). (2007). Ontologies-Based Databases and Information Systems: First and Second VLDB Workshops, ODBIS 2005/2006 Trondheim, Norway, September 2-3, 2005 Seoul, Korea, September 11, 2006 Revised Papers (Vol. 4623). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nunez-Yanez, J. (2016). Computing to the Limit with Heterogeneous CPU-FPGA Devices in a Video Fusion Application. In V. Bonato, C. Bouganis, & M. Gorgon (Eds.), Applied Reconfigurable Computing: 12th International Symposium, ARC 2016 Mangaratiba, RJ, Brazil, March 22–24, 2016 Proceedings (pp. 41–53). Springer International Publishing.

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 Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, January 4). A Mystery Space Object Will Cruise Past Earth Next Month. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2009). Motor Carrier Safety: Commercial Vehicle Registration Program Has Kept Unsafe Carriers from Operating, but Effectiveness Is Difficult to Measure (GAO-09-495). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Allard, L. (2006). Exposure to Low-Level Ionizing Radiation and Risk of Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in Participants of the Fernald Medical Monitoring Program [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati.

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

Hubbard, B. (2017, February 8). Did Kuwait Copy Trump’s Travel Ban? Not Quite. New York Times, A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Haidt, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bedalov & Simon, 2004; Haidt, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bedalov & Simon, 2004)
Three authors: (Redhu et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Esplugues et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Exp. Neuropsychol.
ISSN (print)	1380-3395
ISSN (online)	1744-411X
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology Clinical Psychology