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]

Moore M J 2002 RNA events. No end to nonsense Science 298 370–1

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Day M and Morris R G 2001 Memory consolidation and NMDA receptors: discrepancy between genetic and pharmacological approaches Science 293 755

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Preusser F, Radies D and Matter A 2002 A 160,000-year record of dune development and atmospheric circulation in Southern Arabia Science 296 2018–20

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Roach P J, Woodward W H, Castleman A W Jr, Reber A C and Khanna S N 2009 Complementary active sites cause size-selective reactivity of aluminum cluster anions with water Science 323 492–5

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Davidson P W, Prasher V P and Janicki M P 2008 Mental Health, Intellectual Disabilities, and the Aging Process (Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Dediu A-H, Martín-Vide C, Mitkov R and Truthe B 2013 Statistical Language and Speech Processing: First International Conference, SLSP 2013, Tarragona, Spain, July 29-31, 2013. Proceedings vol 7978 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

van Aartsengel A and Kurtoglu S 2013 Strategic Planning and Management A Guide to Continuous Improvement Transformation: Concepts, Processes, Implementation Management for Professionals ed S Kurtoglu (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 51–63

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 2013 Gene Therapy Provides Significant Antiviral Results Against HIV 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 2002 Technology Transfer: NNSA Did Not Implement the Technology Infrastructure Pilot Program (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]

Cleveland J D 2014 A comparative study of genetic diversities among exploited flatfishes of the California Slope with emphasis on Dover sole (Microstomus pacificus) Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Vecsey G 2011 Underdog’s Feat Is Inspiration for Cricket’s Dreamers New York Times SP7

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