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

Stone AJ (2007) Chemistry. Water from first principles. Science 315:1228–1229

A journal article with 2 authors

Jellinek AM, Bercovici D (2011) Seismic tremors and magma wagging during explosive volcanism. Nature 470:522–525

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu C, Shang X-D, Huang RX (2014) Horizontal eddy energy flux in the world oceans diagnosed from altimetry data. Sci Rep 4:5316

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Huang Q, Liu D, Majewski P, et al (2001) The plasticity of dendritic cell responses to pathogens and their components. Science 294:870–875

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Engle CR, Quagrainie KK, Dey MM (2016) Seafood and Aquaculture Marketing Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Kerschen G (ed) (2016) Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Golani M, Gal A (2005) Flexible Business Process Management Using Forward Stepping and Alternative Paths. In: Aalst WMP van der, Benatallah B, Casati F, Curbera F (eds) Business Process Management: 3rd International Conference, BPM 2005, Nancy, France, September 5-8, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 48–63

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

Hamilton K (2017) Something Big Exploded In A Galaxy Far, Far Away: What Was It? In: IFLScience. 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 (1999) Aviation Security: FAA’s Actions to Study Responsibilities and Funding for Airport Security and to Certify Screening Companies. 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

Ma B (2012) Improving the performance of hyperspectral target detection. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Neal L (2010) Quotation of the Day. New York Times A2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stone 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Stone 2007; Jellinek and Bercovici 2011).

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

Two authors: (Jellinek and Bercovici 2011)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al. 2001)

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