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

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Cash W (2006) Detection of Earth-like planets around nearby stars using a petal-shaped occulter. Nature 442:51–53
A journal article with 2 authors
Gruber N, Galloway JN (2008) An Earth-system perspective of the global nitrogen cycle. Nature 451:293–296
A journal article with 3 authors
Stajic J, Coontz R, Osborne I (2011) Superconductivity. Happy 100th, superconductivity! Introduction. Science 332:189
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Weber T, Herbig J, Mark M, et al (2003) Bose-Einstein condensation of cesium. Science 299:232–235

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Maré J-C (2016) Aerospace Actuators 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
An edited book
Sultana RG (ed) (2011) Educators of the Mediterranean… …Up Close and Personal: Critical Voices from South Europe and the MENA region. SensePublishers, Rotterdam
A chapter in an edited book
Moussaoui C, Abbou R, Loiseau JJ (2014) Controller Design for a Class of Delayed and Constrained Systems: Application to Supply Chains. In: Seuret A, Özbay H, Bonnet C, Mounier H (eds) Low-Complexity Controllers for Time-Delay Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 61–75

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 Neural Transmission.

Blog post
Hamilton K (2016) Microbes: Our Tiny, Crucial Allies. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1984) Attrition of Scientists and Engineers at Seven Agencies. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Stroot PG (2004) Novel Reverse Transcription Method Confirms Growth Inhibition of Bacteria Exposed to Domestic Wastewater. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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
Kishkovsky S (2013) Aleksei German, 74, Director of Anti-Soviet Movies. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cash 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Cash 2006; Gruber and Galloway 2008).

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

  • Two authors: (Gruber and Galloway 2008)
  • Three or more authors: (Weber et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Neural Transmission
AbbreviationJ. Neural Transm. (Vienna)
ISSN (print)0300-9564
ISSN (online)1435-1463
ScopeClinical Neurology
Psychiatry and Mental health
Biological Psychiatry
Neurology

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