How to format your references using the Journal of NeuroInterventional surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of NeuroInterventional surgery. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Crothers DM. Biophysics. Fine tuning gene regulation. Science. 2013;339:766–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

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

A journal article with 3 authors

Galdi S, Arcuri L, Gawronski B. Automatic mental associations predict future choices of undecided decision-makers. Science. 2008;321:1100–2.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shen K, Huang RK, Brignole EJ, et al. Architecture of the human GATOR1 and GATOR1-Rag GTPases complexes. Nature. 2018;556:64–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes P. The JCT 05 Standard Building Sub-Contract. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2008.

An edited book

Litrico X. Modeling and Control of Hydrosystems. London: Springer 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

D’Elia A, Viola F, Roffia L, et al. A Multi-Broker Platform for the Internet of Things. In: Balandin S, Andreev S, Koucheryavy Y, eds. Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networks and Systems: 15th International Conference, NEW2AN 2015, and 8th Conference, ruSMART 2015, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 26-28, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2015:34–46.

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 NeuroInterventional surgery.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Researchers Have Discovered An Ancient Defence Mechanism Inside The Great Pyramid Of Giza. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/researchers-have-discovered-an-ancient-defence-mechanism-inside-the-great-pyramid-of-giza/ (accessed 30 October 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. Railroad Financing: Stakeholders’ Views on Recent Changes to the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kolb JN. What’s professional development got to do with it? The value of lesson study in implementing the common core standards for mathematical practices. 2015.

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

Williams J. Still Hunting Jack. New York Times. 2016;BR4.

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 NeuroInterventional surgery
Abbreviation	J. Neurointerv. Surg.
ISSN (print)	1759-8478
ISSN (online)	1759-8486
Scope	General Medicine Clinical Neurology Surgery