How to format your references using the Journal of Neurolinguistics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Neurolinguistics. 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

Carroll, S. M. (2006). Is our Universe natural? Nature, 440(7088), 1132–1136.

A journal article with 2 authors

Heimann, M., & Reichstein, M. (2008). Terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics and climate feedbacks. Nature, 451(7176), 289–292.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haas, W., Shepard, B. D., & Gilmore, M. S. (2002). Two-component regulator of Enterococcus faecalis cytolysin responds to quorum-sensing autoinduction. Nature, 415(6867), 84–87.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nakahata, Y., Sahar, S., Astarita, G., Kaluzova, M., & Sassone-Corsi, P. (2009). Circadian control of the NAD+ salvage pathway by CLOCK-SIRT1. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5927), 654–657.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lombard, M. (2011). SolidWorks® 2011 Parts Bible. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Chae, J. (Ed.). (2015). Initial Results from the Fast Imaging Solar Spectrograph (FISS). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Rosenfeld, S. S. (2015). Clinical Trials of Mitotic Kinesin Inhibitors. In K. F. Frank (Ed.), Kinesins and Cancer (pp. 63–76). Springer Netherlands.

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 Neurolinguistics.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, April 10). Deadly, Contagious Form of Leukemia is Devastating Atlantic Clams. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/deadly-form-leukemia-devastating-clams-atlantic-ocean/

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. (2000). Army Corps of Engineers: An Assessment of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement of the Lower Snake River Dams (RCED-00-186). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McKinney, S. (2008). An analysis of the influence of No Child Left Behind and Arizona Learns on middle -school principal leadership behaviors and responsibilities [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Grundfest, J. A., Lemley, M. A., & Triantis, G. G. (2012, October 24). Getting More Bang for the Fed’s Buck. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Carroll, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Carroll, 2006; Heimann & Reichstein, 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Heimann & Reichstein, 2008)
Three authors: (Haas et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Nakahata et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neurolinguistics
Abbreviation	J. Neurolinguistics
ISSN (print)	0911-6044
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Cognitive Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language