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. Ellis GF. Dennis Sciama (1926-99). Nature. 2000;403:722.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Goedert M, Spillantini MG. A century of Alzheimer’s disease. Science. 2006;314:777–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Buehler MJ, Abraham FF, Gao H. Hyperelasticity governs dynamic fracture at a critical length scale. Nature. 2003;426:141–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Srinivasan J, Kaplan F, Ajredini R, Zachariah C, Alborn HT, Teal PEA, et al. A blend of small molecules regulates both mating and development in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 2008;454:1115–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Murray B. The Possibility of Culture. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Balali-Mood M, Abdollahi M, editors. Basic and Clinical Toxicology of Mustard Compounds. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hardin D. Using Data from Earth Orbiting Satellites in Geo-Hypermedia Applications: A Survey of Data Resources. In: Stefanakis E, Peterson MP, Armenakis C, Delis V, editors. Geographic Hypermedia: Concepts and Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 53–72.

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. Andrew E. Smoking Pot Could Make You More Prone To False Memories [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/smoking-pot-could-make-you-more-prone-false-memories/

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. Aviation Competition: Issues Related to the Proposed United Airlines-US Airways Merger. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Dec. Report No.: GAO-01-212.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pierre RR. A Phenomenological Study of the Boomerang-Employment Experience of Scientists and Engineers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2019.

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. Baggage, New and Old, Arrives at Citi Field. New York Times. 2011 Apr 9;D5.

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

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