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

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

Wark, D., 2014. Particle physics: The hunt for Majorana neutrinos hots up. Nature 510, 224–225.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buzsáki, G., Draguhn, A., 2004. Neuronal oscillations in cortical networks. Science 304, 1926–1929.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gardner, T.J., Naef, F., Nottebohm, F., 2005. Freedom and rules: the acquisition and reprogramming of a bird’s learned song. Science 308, 1046–1049.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuijpers, M.W.A., van Eck, D., Kemmere, M.F., Keurentjes, J.T.F., 2002. Cavitation-induced reactions in high-pressure carbon dioxide. Science 298, 1969–1971.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieberman, N.P., 2010. Process Engineering for a Small Planet. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rodrigues Leta, F. (Ed.), 2014. Visual Computing: Scientific Visualization and Imaging Systems, Augmented Vision and Reality. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

McTear, M., Callejas, Z., Griol, D., 2016. Conversational Interfaces: Past and Present, in: Callejas, Z., Griol, D. (Eds.), The Conversational Interface: Talking to Smart Devices. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 51–72.

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 Methods.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Opportunity rover discovers mysterious rock on Martian surface [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/opportunity-rover-discovers-mysterious-rock-martian-surface/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2011. Disadvantaged Students: School Districts Have Used Title I Funds Primarily to Support Instruction (No. GAO-11-595). 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

Morissette, T.M., 2009. Elder friendliness and social participation of older adults living within age-segregated retirement communities (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Vizard, M.M., 1999. In the Region /Westchester; Avalon Joins New Roc City for New Rochelle Revival. New York Times 1111.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Wark, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Buzsáki and Draguhn, 2004; Wark, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Buzsáki and Draguhn, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Kuijpers et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neuroscience Methods
Abbreviation	J. Neurosci. Methods
ISSN (print)	0165-0270
Scope	General Neuroscience