How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Clinical Neurology (JCN). 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

Liechty J. Scientists and bankers - a new model army. Nature 2012;484:143.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis BR, Candotti F. Genetics. Mosaicism--switch or spectrum? Science 2010;330:46-47.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rajagopalan J, Han JH, Saif MTA. Plastic deformation recovery in freestanding nanocrystalline aluminum and gold thin films. Science 2007;315:1831-1834.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yu RC, Pesce CG, Colman-Lerner A, Lok L, Pincus D, Serra E, et al. Negative feedback that improves information transmission in yeast signalling. Nature 2008;456:755-761.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Markley NG. Principles of Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

Kim J-H, Matson ET, Myung H, Xu P, editors. Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 2012: An Edition of the Presented Papers from the 1st International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications. Vol 208. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Mottershead JE, Link M, Silva TAN, Govers Y, Khodaparast HH. The Sensitivity Method in Stochastic Model Updating. In: Sinha JK, editor Vibration Engineering and Technology of Machinery: Proceedings of VETOMAC X 2014, Held at the University of Manchester, UK, September 9-11, 2014. Mechanisms and Machine Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015;65-77.

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 Neurology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists At Work: Most Days In The Life Of An Astronomer Aren’t Spent At Telescopes. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-work-most-days-life-astronomer-aren-t-spent-telescopes/. Published May 6, 2015 Accessed October 30, 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. Regulatory Flexibility in Schools: What Happens When Schools Are Allowed to Change the Rules? Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Le D. L.A. Children’s Music Therapy Center, LLC. 2015.

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

McFADDEN RD. Gabe Pressman, 93, Dean Of New York News, Dies. New York Times. June 23, 2017:D6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Clinical Neurology
ISSN (print)	1738-6586
ISSN (online)	2005-5013
Scope