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

McNamara BR (2013) Astronomy. Feedback on galaxy formation. Science 341:1073–1075

A journal article with 2 authors

Stitzel ML, Seydoux G (2007) Regulation of the oocyte-to-zygote transition. Science 316:407–408

A journal article with 3 authors

Regenauer-Lieb K, Yuen DA, Branlund J (2001) The initiation of subduction: criticality by addition of water? Science 294:578–580

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zuber J, Shi J, Wang E, et al (2011) RNAi screen identifies Brd4 as a therapeutic target in acute myeloid leukaemia. Nature 478:524–528

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisswanger H (2005) Enzymkinetik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Norman RA (2014) Atlas of Geriatric Dermatology. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Harmáčková ZV, Lorencová EK, Vačkář D (2016) Ecosystem-Based Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: Costs and Benefits of Participatory Ecosystem Services Scenarios for Šumava National Park, Czech Republic. In: Renaud FG, Sudmeier-Rieux K, Estrella M, Nehren U (eds) Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation in Practice. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 99–129

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

Luntz S (2014) Moon Dances With Planets. 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 (1995) School Facilities: Condition of America’s Schools. 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

Winter JM (2010) Investigating the biosynthesis of halogenated meroterpenoid natural products from marine actinomycetes. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Rothenberg B (2016) U.S. Player Cleared in Meldonium Inquiry. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McNamara 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Stitzel and Seydoux 2007; McNamara 2013).

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

Two authors: (Stitzel and Seydoux 2007)
Three or more authors: (Zuber et al. 2011)

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