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]

Güntürkün O. Human behaviour: Adult persistence of head-turning asymmetry. Nature 2003;421:711.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cui Y, Lieber CM. Functional nanoscale electronic devices assembled using silicon nanowire building blocks. Science 2001;291:851–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zahidi EM, Oudghiri-Hassani H, McBreen PH. Formation of thermally stable alkylidene layers on a catalytically active surface. Nature 2001;409:1023–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Dick IE, Tadross MR, Liang H, Tay LH, Yang W, Yue DT. A modular switch for spatial Ca2+ selectivity in the calmodulin regulation of CaV channels. Nature 2008;451:830–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

da Silva LS, Simões R, Gervásio H, Couchman G. Design of Steel Structures. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Nakatsu R, Tosa N, Naghdy F, Wong KW, Codognet P, editors. Cultural Computing: Second IFIP TC 14 Entertainment Computing Symposium, ECS 2010, Held as Part of WCC 2010, Brisbane, Australia, September 20-23, 2010. Proceedings. vol. 333. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Li Z, Li X. Quantification of Spike-LFP Synchronization. In: Li X, editor. Signal Processing in Neuroscience, Singapore: Springer; 2016, p. 57–75.

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]

Hamilton K. How The Human Brain Can Register Information Without Conscious Attention. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-the-human-brain-can-register-information-without-conscious-attention/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Record Linkage and Privacy: Issues in Creating New Federal Research and Statistical Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Horton CR. Financial crisis within the nonprofit sector. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2013.

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]

Kelly J. A Girl Wants to Know. New York Times 2015:BR18.

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