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

Richard TL (2010) Challenges in scaling up biofuels infrastructure. Science 329:793–796

A journal article with 2 authors

Hammond EM, Giaccia AJ (2002) Antiangiogenic therapy and p53. Science 297:471; discussion 471

A journal article with 3 authors

Dunham EM, Favreau P, Carlson JM (2003) A supershear transition mechanism for cracks. Science 299:1557–1559

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Vaida V, Kjaergaard HG, Hintze PE, Donaldson DJ (2003) Photolysis of sulfuric acid vapor by visible solar radiation. Science 299:1566–1568

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keedwell E, Narayanan A (2005) Intelligent Bioinformatics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Nin J, Villatoro D (2013) Citizen in Sensor Networks: First International Workshop, CitiSens 2012, Montpellier, France, August 27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

D’Amato A (2008) On the Legitimacy of International Institutions. In: Wolfrum R, Röben V (eds) Legitimacy in International Law. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 83–92

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

Andrew E (2015) Signs Of Acid Fog Detected On Mars. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spirit-detects-signs-acid-fog-mars/. 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 (1983) Review of Contract Award for Management of National Center for Research in Vocational Education. 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

Richardson MM (2013) Challenging the South’s black-white binary: Haliwa-Saponi Indians and political autonomy. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Kepner T (2016) 7th Inning? Bring In the Closer. New York Times B9

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