How to format your references using the Journal of Neurochemistry citation style

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

Buston P. (2003) Social hierarchies: size and growth modification in clownfish. Nature 424, 145–146.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trachenko K., Brazhkin V. V. (2013) Duality of liquids. Sci. Rep. 3, 2188.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khalil A. M., Cambier J. C., Shlomchik M. J. (2012) B cell receptor signal transduction in the GC is short-circuited by high phosphatase activity. Science 336, 1178–1181.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Aronson R. B., Precht W. F., Macintyre I. G., Murdoch T. J. (2000) Coral bleach-out in Belize. Nature 405, 36.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Atherton J., Gil F., Center for Chemical Process Safety (2008) Incidents That Define Process Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Agresta F., Campanile F. C., Vettoretto N., eds (2014) Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: An Evidence-Based Guide. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Rosenberg R., Gaul S., Ford W., Tomilova O. (2013) Microcredit Interest Rates and Their Determinants: 2004–2011, in Microfinance 3.0: Reconciling Sustainability with Social Outreach and Responsible Delivery, (Köhn D., ed), pp. 69–104. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Neurochemistry.

Blog post

Andrew E. (2014) HIV Undetectable In Two Patients Following Cancer Treatment. 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

Government Accountability Office (2016) Intellectual Property: Patent Office Should Define Quality, Reassess Incentives, and Improve Clarity. 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

Wrobleski M. M. (2010) The challenge of teen nutrition: An ecological view of socio-cognitive influences on urban, African-American adolescent diet quality. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Vecsey G. (2010) For Knicks’ Lee, a Grandfather, Mentor and Pal. New York Times, B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buston 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Buston 2003; Trachenko and Brazhkin 2013).

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

Two authors: (Trachenko and Brazhkin 2013)
Three or more authors: (Aronson et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neurochemistry
Abbreviation	J. Neurochem.
ISSN (print)	0022-3042
ISSN (online)	1471-4159
Scope	Biochemistry Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience