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:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
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

Fryzuk MD (2013) Chemistry. More can be better in N2 activation. Science 340:1530–1531

A journal article with 2 authors

Turelli P, Trono D (2005) Editing at the crossroad of innate and adaptive immunity. Science 307:1061–1065

A journal article with 3 authors

Nishimura EK, Granter SR, Fisher DE (2005) Mechanisms of hair graying: incomplete melanocyte stem cell maintenance in the niche. Science 307:720–724

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Manzoni G, Briquet S, Risco-Castillo V, et al (2014) A rapid and robust selection procedure for generating drug-selectable marker-free recombinant malaria parasites. Sci Rep 4:4760

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vento JJ (2013) Financial Independence (Getting to Point X ). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ashkenazi J, Eremin MV, Cohn JL, et al (eds) (2005) New Challenges in Superconductivity: Experimental Advances and Emerging Theories: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on New Challenges in Superconductivity: Experimental Advances and Emerging Theories Miami, Florida, U.S.A. 11–14 January 2004. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Naumov AD, Timokhina NI, Litvinchuk AV, et al (2013) Radioprotective Properties of Selenomethionine with Methionine, Extracts from Basidium Fungi and Exogenous DNA. In: Pierce GN, Mizin VI, Omelchenko A (eds) Advanced Bioactive Compounds Countering the Effects of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Agents: Strategies to Counter Biological Damage. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 55–69

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

Andrew E (2014) Dancing Baby Skates! In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dancing-baby-skates/. 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 (1986) Deactivating Research Vessels: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Use of Private Ships. 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

Harper T (2010) Going public, staying private, and everything in between. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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 (2002) Voice of Calm. New York Times 625

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fryzuk 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Turelli and Trono 2005; Fryzuk 2013).

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

Two authors: (Turelli and Trono 2005)
Three or more authors: (Manzoni et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neural Transmission
Abbreviation	J. Neural Transm. (Vienna)
ISSN (print)	0300-9564
ISSN (online)	1435-1463
Scope	Clinical Neurology Psychiatry and Mental health Biological Psychiatry Neurology