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]

Klasse PJ. Structural biology. A new bundle of prospects for blocking HIV-1 entry. Science 2013;341:1347–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Walton GM, Cohen GL. A brief social-belonging intervention improves academic and health outcomes of minority students. Science 2011;331:1447–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hassan MA, Mahmoodian R, Hamdi M. Modified smoothed particle hydrodynamics (MSPH) for the analysis of centrifugally assisted TiC-Fe-Al2O3 combustion synthesis. Sci Rep 2014;4:3724.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Oinuma I, Ishikawa Y, Katoh H, Negishi M. The Semaphorin 4D receptor Plexin-B1 is a GTPase activating protein for R-Ras. Science 2004;305:862–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Römer H. Theoretical Optics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Moore RJ, editor. Handbook of Pain and Palliative Care: Biobehavioral Approaches for the Life Course. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yanguas-Gil A, Wormeester H. Relationship Between Surface Morphology and Effective Medium Roughness. In: Losurdo M, Hingerl K, editors. Ellipsometry at the Nanoscale, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 179–202.

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]

Andrew E. The Anthropocene Has Been Shaped By The Media And Our Digital Lives. IFLScience 2015.

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. Mass Transit: Issues Related to Providing Dedicated Funding for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Boothe CS. The effects of prototype medium on the user’s overall perception of usability and ability to detect usability flaws. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, 2012.

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]

Brantley B. Marginalized Souls, Magnified. New York Times 2017:C1.

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

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