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

Grier DG (2003) A revolution in optical manipulation. Nature 424:810–816

A journal article with 2 authors

Stumpf MPH, Porter MA (2012) Mathematics. Critical truths about power laws. Science 335:665–666

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang MC, O’Rourke EJ, Ruvkun G (2008) Fat metabolism links germline stem cells and longevity in C. elegans. Science 322:957–960

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schueler MG, Higgins AW, Rudd MK, et al (2001) Genomic and genetic definition of a functional human centromere. Science 294:109–115

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bamfield P (2006) Research and Development in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Zhang L (ed) (2016) Modeling the Injury Flow and Treatment after Major Earthquakes. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Conceição L, Curado M (2013) Modelling Mobility Based on Human Behaviour in Disaster Areas. In: Tsaoussidis V, Kassler AJ, Koucheryavy Y, Mellouk A (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communication: 11th International Conference, WWIC 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 5-7, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 56–69

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) Microorganisms From Earth Could Survive On Mars. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/microorganisms-earth-could-survive-mars/. 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) [Better Guidance Would Improve ADP Evaluations in Support of the Federal Managers’ Financial Integrity Act of 1982]. 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

Lam NN (2013) The effect of racial disparities and adult supervision in Human Papillomavirus knowledge among female adolescents. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Neuman PW (2015) El desminado y la paz avanzan lentamente en Colombia. New York Times A4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grier 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Grier 2003; Stumpf and Porter 2012).

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

Two authors: (Stumpf and Porter 2012)
Three or more authors: (Schueler et al. 2001)

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