How to format your references using the Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology citation style

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

Gershon D (2000) US Congress encouraged to lay out the welcome mat for skilled foreigners. Nature 405:597–598

A journal article with 2 authors

MacLean RC, Gudelj I (2006) Resource competition and social conflict in experimental populations of yeast. Nature 441:498–501

A journal article with 3 authors

Basole A, White LE, Fitzpatrick D (2003) Mapping multiple features in the population response of visual cortex. Nature 423:986–990

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Xiang T, Wang L-R, Ma L, et al (2014) From commodity polymers to functional polymers. Sci Rep 4:4604

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Albright RD (2013) Death of the Chesapeake. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Preston CJ, Ouderkirk W (eds) (2007) Nature, Value, Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Su C-C, Wei C-H, Li Y-S, Yang P-H (2014) High Performance Microelectronic Molding Compounds Cured with Organophosphine Accelerators. In: Juang J, Chen C-Y, Yang C-F (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Engineering Systems (ICITES2013). Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 27–32

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 Neuroimmune Pharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Why Can’t We Remember Our Early Childhood? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-cant-we-remember-our-early-childhood/. 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 (1974) Salary of Executive Director, National Advisory Council on Vocational Education. 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 G (2017) A Mixed Methods Study Examining Teacher Impressions of a Psychoeducational Program on Common Issues During Childhood. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Detrick B (2017) Glamour and Virtue at Fashion Week Parties. New York Times D12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2000; MacLean and Gudelj 2006).

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

Two authors: (MacLean and Gudelj 2006)
Three or more authors: (Xiang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology
Abbreviation	J. Neuroimmune Pharmacol.
ISSN (print)	1557-1890
ISSN (online)	1557-1904
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy Neuroscience (miscellaneous) Pharmacology