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

Xie X. S. (2013) Biochemistry. Enzyme kinetics, past and present. Science 342, 1457–1459.

A journal article with 2 authors

Frusawa H., Matsumoto Y. (2014) Tuning the size and configuration of nanocarbon microcapsules: aqueous method using optical tweezers. Sci. Rep. 4, 4074.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghimire A., Shafran E., Gerton J. M. (2014) Using a sharp metal tip to control the polarization and direction of emission from a quantum dot. Sci. Rep. 4, 6456.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Muravyova E., Golovnin A., Gracheva E., Parshikov A., Belenkaya T., Pirrotta V., Georgiev P. (2001) Loss of insulator activity by paired Su(Hw) chromatin insulators. Science 291, 495–498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Donald H., Robert D. G. (2006) Longitudinal Data Analysis: Hedeker/Longitudinal, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rao K. S. (2013) Robust Emotion Recognition using Spectral and Prosodic Features, SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering, (Koolagudi S. G., ed). Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Domoradzki S., Stawiska M. (2014) Lucjan Emil Böttcher and his Mathematical Legacy, in Mathematics Without Boundaries: Surveys in Pure Mathematics, (Rassias T. M., Pardalos P. M., eds), pp. 127–161. Springer, New York, NY.

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

Luntz S. (2015) Rare Rain Bomb Filmed In Queensland. 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 (1988) FAA’s Implementation of the Expanded East Coast Plan. 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

Ponder K. (2017) Easing Stress by Helping Others: How Corporate Volunteer Programs Impact the Stress of Employees Within an Organization. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Pfaff J. (2017) The Justices Need Fact-Checkers. New York Times, A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Xie 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Xie 2013; Frusawa and Matsumoto 2014).

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

Two authors: (Frusawa and Matsumoto 2014)
Three or more authors: (Muravyova et al. 2001)

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