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

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

Nabel GJ (2009) Philosophy of science. The coordinates of truth. Science 326:53–54

A journal article with 2 authors

Burt D, Pourquie O (2003) Genetics. Chicken genome--science nuggets to come soon. Science 300:1669

A journal article with 3 authors

Touboul M, Puchtel IS, Walker RJ (2015) Tungsten isotopic evidence for disproportional late accretion to the Earth and Moon. Nature 520:530–533

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lin Y-J, Compton RL, Jiménez-García K, et al (2009) Synthetic magnetic fields for ultracold neutral atoms. Nature 462:628–632

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackenzie AFD (2013) Places of Possibility. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Goldstein DJ (2005) The Management of Eating Disorders and Obesity, Second Edition. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Wise JC (2016) Enhancing Resistance Management and Performance of Biorational Insecticides with Novel Delivery Systems in Tree Fruit IPM. In: Horowitz AR, Ishaaya I (eds) Advances in Insect Control and Resistance Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 77–92

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 Neurology.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) FDA Bans The Sale Of Antibacterial Soaps. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1988) Financial Markets: Preliminary Observations on the October 1987 Crash. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cinquemani S (2017) Fostering New Spaces: Challenging Dominant Constructions of Power and Knowledge in Early Childhood Art Education. 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

Tavernise S (2015) A Moscow of Dancing Feet, Under an Iron Fist. New York Times A1

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 Neurology
Abbreviation	J. Neurol.
ISSN (print)	0340-5354
ISSN (online)	1432-1459
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology