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

Kaiser J. What does a disease deserve? Science. 2015;350:900–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwarzman MR, Wilson MP. Science and regulation. New science for chemicals policy. Science. 2009;326:1065–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lykotrafitis G, Rosakis AJ, Ravichandran G. Self-healing pulse-like shear ruptures in the laboratory. Science. 2006;313:1765–8.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Du Z, Munye MM, Tagalakis AD, et al. The role of the helper lipid on the DNA transfection efficiency of lipopolyplex formulations. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Delgrossi L, Zhang T. Vehicle Safety Communications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2012.

An edited book

Kothuri R. Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g. Berkeley, CA: Apress 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Vasa A, Michaelowa A. Uncertainty in Climate Policy – Impacts on Market Mechanisms. In: Gramelsberger G, Feichter J, eds. Climate Change and Policy: The Calculability of Climate Change and the Challenge of Uncertainty. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2011:127–44.

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. LISA Pathfinder: Ready For Space In Search Of Gravity Waves. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/lisa-pathfinder-search-gravity-waves-ready-space/ (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. FAA Technical Training. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Meier MR. Exploring the effects of school calendars on student achievement. 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

Baker L. Can a City Grow Quickly And Stay Simple? New York Times. 2005;119.

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