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

Giardini, D., 2009. Geothermal quake risks must be faced. Nature 462, 848–849.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karijolich, J., Yu, Y.-T., 2011. Converting nonsense codons into sense codons by targeted pseudouridylation. Nature 474, 395–398.

A journal article with 3 authors

Priola, S.A., Chesebro, B., Caughey, B., 2003. Biomedicine. A view from the top--prion diseases from 10,000 feet. Science 300, 917–919.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mu, Y., Yang, H.-Y., Wang, Y.-Z., He, C.-S., Zhao, Q.-B., Wang, Y., Yu, H.-Q., 2014. The maximum specific hydrogen-producing activity of anaerobic mixed cultures: definition and determination. Sci. Rep. 4, 5239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vallin, R.W., 2013. The Elements of Cantor Sets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Maffulli, N. (Ed.), 2016. Platelet Rich Plasma in Musculoskeletal Practice. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Zimmer, J., Hentges, F., Andrès, E., Chalifour, A., 2010. NK Cell Education and CIS Interaction Between Inhibitory NK Cell Receptors and Their Ligands, in: Zimmer, J. (Ed.), Natural Killer Cells: At the Forefront of Modern Immunology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 93–108.

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

Bedell-Pearce, H., 2017. Researchers Believe They Have Solved The 400 Year Old Mystery Of Prince Rupert’s Drops [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/researchers-believe-they-have-solved-the-400-year-old-mystery-of-prince-ruperts-drops/ (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, 1987. Budget Reimbursements: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Reimbursable Work (No. NSIAD-87-171FS). 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

Lee, J.Y., 2008. Socio-Spatial Exclusion Based on Human Activities and Social Networks in Space-Time: A Case Study of Koreans in Columbus, Ohio (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. A Celebrity’s-Eye View of War. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Giardini, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Giardini, 2009; Karijolich and Yu, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Karijolich and Yu, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Mu et al., 2014)

About the journal

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