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

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

Stillman, B., 2001. DNA replication. Genomic views of genome duplication. Science 294, 2301–2304.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaiser, D., Moreno, J., 2012. Dual-use research: Self-censorship is not enough. Nature 492, 345–347.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, Y.K., Lee, H., Park, J.Y., 2014. Tandem-structured, hot electron based photovoltaic cell with double Schottky barriers. Sci. Rep. 4, 4580.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, W., Liu, Y., Tang, L., Jin, Y., Zhao, T., Xiu, F., 2014. Controllable Schottky barriers between MoS2 and permalloy. Sci. Rep. 4, 6928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eklund, C., Marks, R.B., Ponnuswamy, S., Stanwood, K.L., van Waes, N.J.M., 2011. WirelessMAN®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cowan, A., Yosipovitch, G. (Eds.), 2015. Pharmacology of Itch, Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ulubelen, A., Kolak, U., 2009. Chemical and Biological Studies with an Aconitum and a Delphinium Species, in: Şener, B. (Ed.), Innovations in Chemical Biology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 39–49.

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 Neuroimmunology.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. All Six Of The US Nobel Prize Winning Scientists Are Immigrants [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/all-six-of-the-us-nobel-prize-winning-scientists-are-immigrants/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1987. Preparing, Documenting, and Referencing Lotus Spreadsheets (No. 134610). 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

Miller, D.B., 2009. Nurse educators’ leadership styles and nurse graduates’ licensure passage rates (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2006. Court Upholds Arizona Limits Imposed on Insanity Defense. New York Times A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stillman, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Kaiser and Moreno, 2012; Stillman, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Kaiser and Moreno, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neuroimmunology
Abbreviation	J. Neuroimmunol.
ISSN (print)	0165-5728
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy Clinical Neurology Neurology