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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Neuroimaging (JON). 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

Bonetta L. Protein purification: target identification. Nature 2006;439:1021.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilks J, Golovkina T. Immunology. Interfering with interferons. Science 2015;347:233–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reddien PW, Cameron S, Horvitz HR. Phagocytosis promotes programmed cell death in C. elegans. Nature 2001;412:198–202.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Biggs D, Smith RJ, Adams VM, et al. Response-Ivory crisis. Science 2018;360:277–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Faticoni TG. The Mathematics of Infinity. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ; 2006.

An edited book

Becchi CM. Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Modern Physics: Special Relativity, Quantum and Statistical Physics. 2nd Edition. (D’Elia M, ed.). Milano: Springer. ; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Del Rio A, Da Costa FB. Molecular Approaches to Explore Natural and Food-Compound Modulators in Cancer Epigenetics and Metabolism. In: Martinez-Mayorga K, Medina-Franco JL, eds. Foodinformatics: Applications of Chemical Information to Food Chemistry. Vol Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014:131–49.

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 Neuroimaging.

Blog post

Andrews R. New AIDS Vaccine To Undergo Human Trials For First Time. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/aids-vaccine-undergo-human-trials-first-time/. accessed October 30, 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. Strategies to Improve Communication Between Program and Financial Managers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. ; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boos AL. The post-abortion experience: A content analysis. 2015.

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

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Political Memo; Those Chicken Georges And What They Mean. New York Times. . September 30, 1992:A21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neuroimaging
ISSN (print)	1051-2284
ISSN (online)	1552-6569
Scope