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

Besansky NJ (2014) Malaria: How vector mosquitoes beat the heat. Nature 516:334–336

A journal article with 2 authors

McLennan MR, Hockings KJ (2014) Wild chimpanzees show group differences in selection of agricultural crops. Sci Rep 4:5956

A journal article with 3 authors

Scherer E, Munker C, Mezger K (2001) Calibration of the lutetium-hafnium clock. Science 293:683–687

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Panda S, Sato TK, Castrucci AM, et al (2002) Melanopsin (Opn4) requirement for normal light-induced circadian phase shifting. Science 298:2213–2216

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Magnasco V (2010) Models for Bonding in Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Maragoudakis ME, Tsopanoglou NE (eds) (2009) Thrombin: Physiology and Disease. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

De Cecco CN, Rengo M (2014) E. In: Rengo M (ed) MDCT and MRI of the Heart. Springer, Milano, pp 47–55

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

Davis J (2016) Very Hot Drinks “Probably” Cause Cancer, Says The World Health Organization. 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 (2014) Higher Education: Education Should Strengthen Oversight of Schools and Accreditors [Reissued on January 22, 2015]. 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

Rees CL (2009) A systems-level investigation into the genetic determinants of childhood-onset schizophrenia. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

St. John Kelly E (1995) Ghosts Of Montero, By the Sea. New York Times 134

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Besansky 2014).
This sentence cites two references (McLennan and Hockings 2014; Besansky 2014).

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

Two authors: (McLennan and Hockings 2014)
Three or more authors: (Panda et al. 2002)

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