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

Burbine TH (2008) Planetary science. Identifying ancient asteroids. Science 320:457–458

A journal article with 2 authors

Prospero JM, Lamb PJ (2003) African droughts and dust transport to the Caribbean: climate change implications. Science 302:1024–1027

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller-Butterworth CM, Jacobs DS, Harley EH (2003) Strong population substructure is correlated with morphology and ecology in a migratory bat. Nature 424:187–191

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bini M, Ferrari S, Ferrara C, et al (2013) Polymorphism and magnetic properties of Li2MSiO4 (M = Fe, Mn) cathode materials. Sci Rep 3:3452

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Noyer J-M (2016) Transformation of Collective Intelligences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ahmad SI (ed) (2012) Neurodegenerative Diseases. Springer US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Waleffe F, Wang J (2005) Transition Threshold and the Self-Sustaining Process. In: Mullin T, Kerswell R (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Laminar-Turbulent Transition and Finite Amplitude Solutions. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 85–106

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) The US Government Is Preparing To Approve A Private Mission To The Moon. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-us-government-is-preparing-to-approve-a-private-mission-to-the-moon/. 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 (1994) USDA Restructuring: Refocus Info Share Program on Business Processes Rather Than Technology. 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

Marroquin Salvador MD (2017) Hypervelocity Impact of Spherical Aluminum 2017-T4 Projectiles on Aluminum 6061-T6 Multi-Layered Sheets. 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

Kishkovsky S (2011) A Festival in Red Square For the End of Summer. New York Times TR2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burbine 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Prospero and Lamb 2003; Burbine 2008).

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

Two authors: (Prospero and Lamb 2003)
Three or more authors: (Bini et al. 2013)

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