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

Silk JB. Social components of fitness in primate groups. Science. 2007;317:1347–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

Devoret MH, Schoelkopf RJ. Amplifying quantum signals with the single-electron transistor. Nature. 2000;406:1039–46.

A journal article with 3 authors

Butov LV, Gossard AC, Chemla DS. Macroscopically ordered state in an exciton system. Nature. 2002;418:751–4.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sánchez-Otero N, Rodríguez-Berrocal FJ, de la Cadena MP, et al. Evaluation of pleural effusion sCD26 and DPP-IV as diagnostic biomarkers in lung disease. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3999.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Irene EA. Electronic Materials Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2005.

An edited book

Mostafa G, Cathey L, Greene FL, editors. Review of Surgery: Basic Science and Clinical Topics for ABSITE. New York, NY: Springer 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Ramakrishnan VR, Kingdom TT, Orlandi RR. Structural Anomalies of the Nose and Sinuses in Patients with Rhinosinusitis. In: Chang CC, Incaudo GA, Gershwin ME, eds. Diseases of the Sinuses: A Comprehensive Textbook of Diagnosis and Treatment. New York, NY: Springer 2014:73–86.

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

Andrew E. Broca’s Area of Speech In Brain Surprisingly Inactive During Talking. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/broca-s-area-speech-brain-surprisingly-inactive-during-talking/ (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. Education and Employment Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fichera M. Transport of seawater and its influence on the transverse tensile strength of unidirectional composite materials. 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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Jewish Groups Under Attack. New York Times. 2005;A7.

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