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

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

1. Larson EJ. Antarctica: Turning the world upside down. Nature. 2011;480:29–31.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Wilson TJ, Lilley DMJ. Biochemistry. The evolution of ribozyme chemistry. Science. 2009;323:1436–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Akil H, Martone ME, Van Essen DC. Challenges and opportunities in mining neuroscience data. Science. 2011;331:708–12.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. He Y, Vogelstein B, Velculescu VE, Papadopoulos N, Kinzler KW. The antisense transcriptomes of human cells. Science. 2008;322:1855–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Grigg NS. Infrastructure Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Murgante B, Gervasi O, Misra S, Nedjah N, Rocha AMAC, Taniar D, et al., editors. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2012: 12th International Conference, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, June 18-21, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Tesorio P. Le protesi valvolari. In: Sheppard M, Pepper J, Rigby M, editors. Ecocardiografia clinica. Milano: Springer; 2006. p. 89–97.

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 Neuroinflammation.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Homo Naledi Might Be A Million Years Younger Than We Thought [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/homo-naledi-might-be-a-million-years-younger-than-we-thought/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Aircraft Maintenance: Additional FAA Oversight Needed of Aging Aircraft Repairs (Vol. II). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 May. Report No.: RCED-91-91B.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Jenkins D. Leadership Best Practices for Female Executives in the Information Technology Industry [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2017.

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

1. Vecsey G. It’s Form, Not Dysfunction, on Final Day. New York Times. 2011 Sep 13;B16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neuroinflammation
Abbreviation	J. Neuroinflammation
ISSN (online)	1742-2094
Scope	Immunology General Neuroscience Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Neurology