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]

White M F 2003 Insulin signaling in health and disease Science 302 1710–1

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Catalan G and Scott J F 2007 Magnetoelectrics: is CdCr2S4 a multiferroic relaxor? Nature 448 E4-5; discussion E5-6

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Solis R S, Haas J and Creamer W 2001 Dating Caral, a preceramic site in the Supe Valley on the central coast of Peru Science 292 723–6

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Chen L, Chetkovich D M, Petralia R S, Sweeney N T, Kawasaki Y, Wenthold R J, Bredt D S and Nicoll R A 2000 Stargazin regulates synaptic targeting of AMPA receptors by two distinct mechanisms Nature 408 936–43

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Southard T E, Marshall S D and Bonner L L 2015 Orthodontics in the Vertical Dimension (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc)

An edited book

[1]

Wiener R L and Willborn S L 2011 Disability and Aging Discrimination: Perspectives in Law and Psychology (New York, NY: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zhang Y, Panangadan A and Prasanna V K 2015 FP-CPNNQ: A Filter-Based Protocol for Continuous Probabilistic Nearest Neighbor Query Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 20th International Conference, DASFAA 2015, Hanoi, Vietnam, April 20-23, 2015, Proceedings, Part II Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed M Renz, C Shahabi, X Zhou and M A Cheema (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 57–73

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]

Andrew E 2014 Joy To The World: An Ode To Outer Space At Christmas 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 1999 General Aviation Airports: Oversight and Funding (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]

Ziegler R T 2017 The Impact of Strategic Planning Involvement on Employee Engagement in a Federal Public Health Agency Doctoral dissertation (Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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]

Greenhouse L 2007 Justices to Revisit Thorny Issue of Sentencing Guidelines in First Cases After Recess New York Times A15

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