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

Bhutta ZA (2014) Infectious disease: Polio eradication hinges on child health in Pakistan. Nature 511:285–287

A journal article with 2 authors

Artursson P, Knight SD (2015) Structural biology. Breaking the intestinal barrier to deliver drugs. Science 347:716–717

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayashi K, Yoshida K, Matsui Y (2005) A histone H3 methyltransferase controls epigenetic events required for meiotic prophase. Nature 438:374–378

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Groh V, Wu J, Yee C, Spies T (2002) Tumour-derived soluble MIC ligands impair expression of NKG2D and T-cell activation. Nature 419:734–738

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McConnell J (2011) Index of Medical Imaging. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Micu DM (2015) Climate of the Romanian Carpathians: Variability and Trends. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Krannich RS, Luloff AE, Field DR (2011) A New and Different People: Sociodemographic Changes in Southwest Utah. In: Luloff AE, Field DR (eds) People, Places and Landscapes: Social Change in High Amenity Rural Areas. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 63–79

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

Carpineti A (2017) Dimming Dwarf Binary Discovered By Astronomers. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/dimming-dwarf-binary-discovered-by-astronomers/. 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 (1999) Public Education: Title I Services Provided to Students With Limited English Proficiency. 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

Yaceczko SD (2017) A Telehealth Nutrition Manual for an Online Intensive Behavioral Weight Management Program. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Vecsey G (2011) U.S. Grateful to Be Part Of a Sport’s Growth. New York Times D4

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

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