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

G. B. Bonan, Forests and climate change: forcings, feedbacks, and the climate benefits of forests, Science 320, 1444 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

C. Hillaire-Marcel and A. de Vernal, Comment on “Mixed-layer deepening during Heinrich events: a multi-planktonic foraminiferal delta18O approach,” Science 320, 1161; author reply 1161 (2008).

A journal article with 3 authors

J. Gómez-Llobregat, J. Buceta, and R. Reigada, Interplay of cytoskeletal activity and lipid phase stability in dynamic protein recruitment and clustering, Sci. Rep. 3, 2608 (2013).

A journal article with 99 or more authors

S. J. Lee, S.-I. Woo, S. H. Ahn, D. K. Lim, J. Y. Hong, J. H. Park, J. Lim, M.-K. Kim, and S. W. Kwon, Functional interpretation of metabolomics data as a new method for predicting long-term side effects: treatment of atopic dermatitis in infants, Sci. Rep. 4, 7408 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

A. Ahlemeyer-Stubbe and S. Coleman, A Practical Guide to Data Mining for Business and Industry, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (2014).

An edited book

I. H. Williams, Editor, Biocontrol-Based Integrated Management of Oilseed Rape Pests, Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands (2010).

A chapter in an edited book

B. Smith, S. Laskowski, and S. Lowry, Implications of Graphics on Usability and Accessibility for the Voter, in E-Voting and Identity: Second International Conference, VOTE-ID 2009, Luxembourg, September 7-8, 2009. Proceedings, Edited by P. Y. A. Ryan and B. Schoenmakers, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer (2009), pp. 54–74.

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

A. Carpineti, Incredible Ultraviolet View Of The Martian Atmosphere, (2016).at <https://www.iflscience.com/space/incredible-ultraviolet-view-of-the-martian-atmosphere/>

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, Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Restructuring Is Under Way, but Challenges and Risks Remain, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office (2007).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

J. P. Linsenmeyer, A Nice Place to Live and Work: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of a Residential Life Living-Learning Community and Employment Model at a Top-Tier Midwestern University, (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

K. Crow, Mott Street as a Path to Revolution For the Father of Modern China, (2002).

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