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

Griffith, L.C., 2014. Neuroscience: What females really want. Nature 512, 138–139.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raymo, M.E., Mitrovica, J.X., 2012. Collapse of polar ice sheets during the stage 11 interglacial. Nature 483, 453–456.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rust, M.J., Golden, S.S., O’Shea, E.K., 2011. Light-driven changes in energy metabolism directly entrain the cyanobacterial circadian oscillator. Science 331, 220–223.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dreyfus, R., Baudry, J., Roper, M.L., Fermigier, M., Stone, H.A., Bibette, J., 2005. Microscopic artificial swimmers. Nature 437, 862–865.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eicker, U., 2005. Solar Technologies for Buildings. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Lewis, C., Coghill, K. (Eds.), 2016. Parliamentarians’ Professional Development: The Need for Reform, Public Administration, Governance and Globalization. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Q., Wu, Q., Gao, F., 2015. A Cognitive Model for Understanding Chinese Character, in: Guo, Y., Friston, K., Aldo, F., Hill, S., Peng, H. (Eds.), Brain Informatics and Health: 8th International Conference, BIH 2015, London, UK, August 30 - September 2, 2015. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 43–53.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Scientists Discover A Novel Mechanism Of Action Of Cannabidiol Against Lung Cancer Cells [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-discover-novel-mechanism-action-cannabidiol-against-lung-cancer-cells/ (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, 2015. Strategic Sourcing: Opportunities Exist to Better Manage Information Technology Services Spending (No. GAO-15-549). 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

Bogenreif, C., 2017. Rachmaninoff’s Sonata For Cello and Piano: A Staple in the Cello and Piano Repertoire (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Schmidt, M.S., Haberman, M., 2017. Sessions, Shamed by President Over Inquiry, Was Set to Resign. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Griffith, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Griffith, 2014; Raymo and Mitrovica, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Raymo and Mitrovica, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Dreyfus et al., 2005)

About the journal

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