How to format your references using the Journal of Neuroscience and Neuroengineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Neuroscience and Neuroengineering. 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

L. Gravitz, Vector control: The last bite, Nature 484, S26 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

S.-W. Chen and R.-B. Liu, Faraday rotation echo spectroscopy and detection of quantum fluctuations, Sci. Rep. 4, 4695 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

D. Spiegelhalter, M. Pearson, and I. Short, Visualizing uncertainty about the future, Science 333, 1393 (2011).

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Y. Shav-Tal, X. Darzacq, S. M. Shenoy, D. Fusco, S. M. Janicki, D. L. Spector, and R. H. Singer, Dynamics of single mRNPs in nuclei of living cells, Science 304, 1797 (2004).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

R. A. Bernatz, Fourier Series and Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2010).

An edited book

D. N. P. Murthy, Product Reliability: Specification and Performance, London, Springer (2008).

A chapter in an edited book

D. Jamet, N. Lafrenière, and X. Provençal, Generation of Digital Planes Using Generalized Continued-Fractions Algorithms, in Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery: 19th IAPR International Conference, DGCI 2016, Nantes, France, April 18-20, 2016. Proceedings, Edited by N. Normand, J. Guédon, and F. Autrusseau, Cham, Springer International Publishing (2016), pp. 45–56.

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 Neuroscience and Neuroengineering.

Blog post

E. Andrew, Researchers Closer To Using Light Instead of Wires In Computers, (2014).at <https://www.iflscience.com/physics/researchers-closer-using-optics-instead-wires-computers/>

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, Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Federal Business Continuity and Contingency Plans and Day One Strategies, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office (1999).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

T. F. Johnson, The Aircraft Electric Taxi System: A Qualitative Multi Case Study, (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

B. Shpigel, The Undoing of a Quiet Jet, (2015).

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 Neuroscience and Neuroengineering
Abbreviation	J. Neurosci. Neuroeng.
ISSN (print)	2168-2011
ISSN (online)	2168-202X
Scope