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

Jaffe H (2004) Public health. Whatever happened to the U.S. AIDS epidemic? Science 305:1243–1244

A journal article with 2 authors

Hastings A, Palmer MA (2003) Mathematics and biology. A bright future for biologists and mathematicians? Science 299:2003–2004

A journal article with 3 authors

Thornalley DJR, Elderfield H, McCave IN (2009) Holocene oscillations in temperature and salinity of the surface subpolar North Atlantic. Nature 457:711–714

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Traggiai E, Chicha L, Mazzucchelli L, et al (2004) Development of a human adaptive immune system in cord blood cell-transplanted mice. Science 304:104–107

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghiani G, Laporte G, Musmanno R (2005) Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Donati-Martin C, Lejay A, Rouault A (eds) (2011) Séminaire de Probabilités XLIII. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Carey JC (2010) The Importance of Case Reports in Advancing Scientific Knowledge of Rare Diseases. In: Posada de la Paz M, Groft SC (eds) Rare Diseases Epidemiology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 77–86

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

Fang J (2015) 30 New Fly Species Discovered in Los Angeles. In: IFLScience. 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 (2013) Intelligent Transportation Systems: Vehicle-to-Vehicle Technologies Expected to Offer Safety Benefits, but a Variety of Deployment Challenges Exist. 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

Crump S (2015) The efficacy of an academic behavior assessment tool for the functional behavior assessment process. 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

Bruno J (2017) Watching Coral Reefs Die. New York Times SR8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jaffe 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Hastings and Palmer 2003; Jaffe 2004).

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

Two authors: (Hastings and Palmer 2003)
Three or more authors: (Traggiai et al. 2004)

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