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

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

[1]

Barbier E. How is the Global Green New Deal going? Nature 2010;464:832–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dekkers MPJ, Barde Y-A. Developmental biology. Programmed cell death in neuronal development. Science 2013;340:39–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Archibald JD, Averianov AO, Ekdale EG. Late Cretaceous relatives of rabbits, rodents, and other extant eutherian mammals. Nature 2001;414:62–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Valle M, Gillet R, Kaur S, Henne A, Ramakrishnan V, Frank J. Visualizing tmRNA entry into a stalled ribosome. Science 2003;300:127–30.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Motai Ph.D. Y. Data-Variant Kernel Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Elmoataz A, Lezoray O, Nouboud F, Mammass D, Meunier J, editors. Image and Signal Processing: 4th International Conference, ICISP 2010, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada, June 30-July 2, 2010. Proceedings. vol. 6134. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bullinger M, Schmidt S, Naber D. Cross-cultural Quality of Life Research in Mental Health. In: Ritsner MS, Awad AG, editors. Quality of Life Impairment in Schizophrenia, Mood and Anxiety Disorders: New Perspectives on Research and Treatment, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007, p. 67–98.

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 Neuroscience.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. Mars One Delays Manned Mission To The Red Planet Again, This Time By Five Years. IFLScience 2016.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Department of Education: Opportunities to Realize Savings. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lefebvre K. Racial Prejudice, Individualism, and Political Identity: Understanding the Forty-Year Trend of Anti-Welfare Spending Preferences. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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

[1]

Koblin J, Rutenberg J. Pelley Said to Be Leaving Anchor Post With CBS News. New York Times 2017:B4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Neuroscience
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	0967-5868
Scope	General Medicine Clinical Neurology Physiology (medical) Neurology