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

Lewis R (2008) A career at the museum. Nature 451:218

A journal article with 2 authors

Mellor N, Bishopp A (2014) Plant science. The innermost secrets of root development. Science 345:622–623

A journal article with 3 authors

Antonioni A, Sanchez A, Tomassini M (2014) Global information and mobility support coordination among humans. Sci Rep 4:6458

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yeromin AV, Zhang SL, Jiang W, et al (2006) Molecular identification of the CRAC channel by altered ion selectivity in a mutant of Orai. Nature 443:226–229

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wartenberg TE (2013) A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Uden L, Tao Y-H, Yang H-C, Ting I-H (2014) The 2nd International Workshop on Learning Technology for Education in Cloud. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Chen H (2012) Meditations on Quantified Constraint Satisfaction. In: Constable RL, Silva A (eds) Logic and Program Semantics: Essays Dedicated to Dexter Kozen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 35–49

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

Luntz S (2014) Are Your Bacteria Making You Fat? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-your-bacteria-making-you-fat/. 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 (1993) Aviation Research: Issues Related to FAA’s Research Activities. 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

Hendricks-Harris MT (2012) Quality Induction: The Effects of Comprehensive Induction on New Teacher Retention and Job Satisfaction. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Sisario B (2017) Pink’s Latest Album Tops Billboard Chart. New York Times C3

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