How to format your references using the Journal of Neural Engineering citation style

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

[1]

Smaglik P 2002 Clearing your own path Nature 420 3

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kaspi Y and Schneider T 2011 Winter cold of eastern continental boundaries induced by warm ocean waters Nature 471 621–4

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dahl J E, Liu S G and Carlson R M K 2003 Isolation and structure of higher diamondoids, nanometer-sized diamond molecules Science 299 96–9

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Christoffels V M, Grieskamp T, Norden J, Mommersteeg M T M, Rudat C and Kispert A 2009 Tbx18 and the fate of epicardial progenitors Nature 458 E8-9; discussion E9-10

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Joseph C 2013 Advanced Credit Risk Analysis and Management (Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Goldfine H and Shen H 2007 Listeria monocytogenes: Pathogenesis and Host Response (Boston, MA: Springer US)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Acharyya M 2008 An Empirical Study on Enterprise Risk Management in Insurance New Frontiers in Enterprise Risk Management ed D L Olson and D Wu (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 39–55

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 Neural Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T 2016 Moron Allegedly Punches Hammerhead Shark To Death On Beach IFLScience

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 2008 Commercial Aviation: Impact of Airline Crew Scheduling on Delays and Cancellations of Commercial Flights (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

[1]

Li K 2010 An explicative model of leisure-time physical activities among church-going African Americans in Indianapolis Doctoral dissertation (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University)

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]

Longman J 2015 For the Slothful, a Race Is a One-Step Process New York Times D1

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 Neural Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Neural Eng.
ISSN (print)	1741-2560
ISSN (online)	1741-2552
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience