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

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

Petherick, A. (2012). Environment and genetics: Making sense of the noise. Nature, 485(7400), S64-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Long, T., & Wyse, S. (2012). IBI series winner. A season for inquiry: investigating phenology in local campus trees. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6071), 932–933.

A journal article with 3 authors

MacAlister, C. A., Ohashi-Ito, K., & Bergmann, D. C. (2007). Transcription factor control of asymmetric cell divisions that establish the stomatal lineage. Nature, 445(7127), 537–540.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kasture, S., Ravishankar, A. P., Yallapragada, V. J., Patil, R., Valappil, N. V., Mulay, G., & Achanta, V. G. (2014). Plasmonic quasicrystals with broadband transmission enhancement. Scientific reports, 4, 5257.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jacquenet, C., Bourdon, G., & Boucadair, M. (2008). Service Automation and Dynamic Provisioning Techniques in IP/MPLS Environments. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kratsch, D., & Todinca, I. (Eds.). (2014). Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science: 40th International Workshop, WG 2014, Nouan-le-Fuzelier, France, June 25-27, 2014. Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 8747). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kadow, J. F., Langley, D. R., Meanwell, N. A., Pracitto, R., Walker, M. A., & Yeung, K.-S. (2012). Protein-Protein Interaction Targets to Inhibit HIV-1 Infection. In M. D. Wendt (Ed.), Protein-Protein Interactions (pp. 105–165). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Computational Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, August 22). Scientists Develop Beer That Doesn’t Give You A Hangover. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hangover-free-beer-anyone/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1988). Medical ADP Systems: Composite Health Care System Operational Test and Evaluation Costs (No. IMTEC-88-18BR). Washington, DC: 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

Smith, B. (2013). Analysis of hydraulic and financial operations of a recycled water system: A case study of the Orange County water district’s green acres project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Pinker, S. (2015, January 30). Can Students Have Too Much Tech? New York Times, p. A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petherick 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Long and Wyse 2012; Petherick 2012).

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

Two authors: (Long and Wyse 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kasture et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Computational Neuroscience
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	0929-5313
ISSN (online)	1573-6873
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Sensory Systems