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]

Stafford N. Spy in the sky. Nature 2007;445:808–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Schubert EF, Kim JK. Solid-state light sources getting smart. Science 2005;308:1274–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Legrand Y-M, van der Lee A, Barboiu M. Single-crystal X-ray structure of 1,3-dimethylcyclobutadiene by confinement in a crystalline matrix. Science 2010;329:299–302.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Leadbetter EA, Rifkin IR, Hohlbaum AM, Beaudette BC, Shlomchik MJ, Marshak-Rothstein A. Chromatin-IgG complexes activate B cells by dual engagement of IgM and Toll-like receptors. Nature 2002;416:603–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Schweiker W. Dust that Breathes. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Verdin E, editor. Histone Deacetylases: Transcriptional Regulation and Other Cellular Functions. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Marchuk O, Ralchenko Y. Populations of Excited Parabolic States of Hydrogen Beam in Fusion Plasmas. In: Shevelko V, Tawara H, editors. Atomic Processes in Basic and Applied Physics, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 83–101.

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]

Carpineti A. Peer-Reviewed Paper On EmDrive To Be Published In December. IFLScience 2016.

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. School Meal Programs: Competitive Foods Are Widely Available and Generate Substantial Revenues for Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Brown ML. Examining leadership and the laminated glass ceiling: Gender and leadership traits. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, 2010.

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]

Shpigel B. On Field or Film, Nothing Gets by Him. New York Times 2016:B8.

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

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