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

Kratky C. A coordinated approach is key for open access. Nature. 2013;500:503.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ding T, Schloss PD. Dynamics and associations of microbial community types across the human body. Nature. 2014;509:357–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maurya SR, Chaturvedi D, Mahalakshmi R. Modulating lipid dynamics and membrane fluidity to drive rapid folding of a transmembrane barrel. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1989.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Michael TP, Salomé PA, Yu HJ, et al. Enhanced fitness conferred by naturally occurring variation in the circadian clock. Science. 2003;302:1049–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pavlović T, Alvarez I, Blanco-Cano R, et al. 100 Years of Spanish Cinema. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell 2008.

An edited book

Sivaperuman C, Baqri QH, Ramaswamy G, et al., editors. Faunal Ecology and Conservation of the Great Indian Desert. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Maricau E, Gielen G. Background on IC Reliability Simulation. In: Gielen G, ed. Analog IC Reliability in Nanometer CMOS. New York, NY: Springer 2013:79–91.

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. Astronomers Reveal Most Detailed Catalog of Milky Way Stars. IFLScience. 2014.

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. Internet Infrastructure: Challenges in Developing a Public/Private Recovery Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Henry ME. A nutrition education program to change college dorm dwellers’ eating patterns. 2009.

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

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Uses Farm Speech to Begin New Offensive. New York Times. 1992;A13.

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