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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Stroke. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Carr AM. Checking that replication breakdown is not terminal. Science 2002;297:557–558.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crompton RH, Pataky TC. Anthropology. Stepping out. Science 2009;323:1174–1175.

A journal article with 3 authors

de Roode JC, Lefèvre T, Hunter MD. Ecology. Self-medication in animals. Science 2013;340:150–151.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Levy JS, Fountain AG, Dickson JL, Head JW, Okal M, Marchant DR, et al. Accelerated thermokarst formation in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Sci Rep 2013;3:2269.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Waupsh J. Bankruption. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

Orchiston W, ed. The New Astronomy: Opening the Electromagnetic Window and Expanding Our View of Planet Earth: A Meeting to Honor Woody Sullivan on his 60th Birthday. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Hattori M. The C-Terminal Region of Reelin: Structure and Function. In: Fatemi SH, ed. Reelin Glycoprotein: Structure, Biology and Roles in Health and Disease. New York, NY: Springer, 2008;49–56.

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 Stroke.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Make Neurons From Human Skin Cells Using Only Chemicals. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-make-neurons-human-skin-cells-using-only-chemicals/. Accessed October 30, 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. Missile Development: Development Status of the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

McClenahan A. The Impact of Media Promulgated Fear on the Psyche: Love Will Prevail. 2017.

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

Barneby MR, Kelly J. A Pension Gap for Women. New York Times. . August 31, 1997. 312.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Stroke
ISSN (print)	2287-6391
ISSN (online)	2287-6405
Scope