How to format your references using the Journal of NeuroVirology citation style

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

du Toit JT (2011) Ecology. Coexisting with cattle. Science 333:1710–1711

A journal article with 2 authors

van Dokkum PG, Conroy C (2010) A substantial population of low-mass stars in luminous elliptical galaxies. Nature 468:940–942

A journal article with 3 authors

Frederickson ME, Greene MJ, Gordon DM (2005) Ecology: “Devil’s gardens” bedevilled by ants. Nature 437:495–496

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Pfitzner C, Schröder I, Scheungraber C, et al (2014) Digital-Direct-RT-PCR: a sensitive and specific method for quantification of CTC in patients with cervical carcinoma. Sci Rep 4:3970

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ellis H, Lawson A (2013) Anatomy for Anaesthetists. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Pickard JD, Akalan N, Benes V, et al (eds) (2011) Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery. Springer, Vienna

A chapter in an edited book

da Costa GWO, Cattoni AF, Mogensen PE, da Silva LA (2015) Dynamic Channel Selection for Cognitive Femtocells. In: Di Benedetto M-G, Cattoni AF, Fiorina J, et al. (eds) Cognitive Radio and Networking for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Recent Advances and Visions for the Future. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 151–180

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 NeuroVirology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Jogging Can Add Years To Your Life – Here Are Six Simple Tips To Get You Started. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/jogging-can-add-years-to-your-life-here-are-six-simple-tips-to-get-you-started/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2007) Passenger Rail Security: Federal Strategy and Enhanced Coordination Needed to Prioritize and Guide Security Efforts. 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

Vas LT (2008) Orbis pictus: Intermedialität zwischen Berliner Stadtmalerei und literarischer Stadterfahrung dargestellt anhand der Werke von E.T.A. Hoffmann und Wilhelm Raabe. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Murphy MJO (2015) Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times C30

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (du Toit 2011).
This sentence cites two references (van Dokkum and Conroy 2010; du Toit 2011).

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

Two authors: (van Dokkum and Conroy 2010)
Three or more authors: (Pfitzner et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of NeuroVirology
Abbreviation	J. Neurovirol.
ISSN (print)	1355-0284
ISSN (online)	1538-2443
Scope	Virology Clinical Neurology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Neurology