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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Neuroradiology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

Butte AJ. Medicine. The ultimate model organism. Science 2008;320:325–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shao Z, Vollrath F. Surprising strength of silkworm silk. Nature 2002;418:741.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Takeuchi Y, Yoshizaki G, Takeuchi T. Biotechnology: surrogate broodstock produces salmonids. Nature 2004;430:629–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Mortuza GB, Haire LF, Stevens A, Smerdon SJ, Stoye JP, Taylor IA. High-resolution structure of a retroviral capsid hexameric amino-terminal domain. Nature 2004;431:481–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hein H, Kunze W. Umweltanalytik mit Spektrometrie und Chromatographie. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Evans R. Complex Classroom Encounters: A South African Perspective. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Matalonga S, Rodrigues F, Travassos GH. Matching Context Aware Software Testing Design Techniques to ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119. In: Rout T, O’Connor RV, Dorling A, editors. Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination: 15th International Conference, SPICE 2015, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 16-17, 2015. Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 33–44.

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 Neuroradiology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Human Trial Shows Engineered Immune Cells Could Help Fight Leukemia. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-trial-shows-engineered-immune-cells-could-help-fight-leukemia/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of State Automated Systems to Support Federal Welfare Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ficchi G. A Qualitative Inquiry: Parental Approaches and Expectations, What Role Does Disability Play? Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2017.

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

[1]

Vecsey G. A Great Goal for the United States, But Not the First or Only Great One. New York Times 2010:SP1.

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 Neuroradiology
Abbreviation	J. Neuroradiol.
ISSN (print)	0150-9861
Scope	Clinical Neurology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiological and Ultrasound Technology