How to format your references using the Journal of the Neurological Sciences citation style

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

[1]

J. Bloxham, Sensitivity of the geomagnetic axial dipole to thermal core-mantle interactions, Nature 405 (2000) 63–65.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Bongaarts, S. Sinding, Population policy in transition in the developing world, Science 333 (2011) 574–576.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Z. Wang, A. Pakoulev, D.D. Dlott, Watching vibrational energy transfer in liquids with atomic spatial resolution, Science 296 (2002) 2201–2203.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Cassidy, V. Singh, P. Grammatikopoulos, F. Djurabekova, K. Nordlund, M. Sowwan, Inoculation of silicon nanoparticles with silver atoms, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3083.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.M. Pines, C.R. Carpenter, A.S. Raja, J.D. Schuur, Evidence-Based Emergency Care, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Zhang, G. Yao, J. He, L. Wang, N.R. Smalheiser, X. Yin, eds., Health Information Science: Third International Conference, HIS 2014, Shenzhen, China, April 22-23, 2014. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Rebohle, W. Skorupa, Electroluminescence Spectra, in: W. Skorupa (Ed.), Rare-Earth Implanted MOS Devices for Silicon Photonics: Microstructural, Electrical and Optoelectronic Properties, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 53–83.

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 the Neurological Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Scientists Discover The Secret Of Why Indian Food Tastes So Good, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-discover-secret-why-indian-food-tastes-so-divine/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Commercial Space Launches: FAA’s Risk Assessment Process Is Not Yet Updated, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.B. Blumenfeld, Policy Making and the U.S. Response to Global HIV/AIDS, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2015.

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

[1]

S.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Outcry At Claims Against Jews, New York Times (2005) A6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 the Neurological Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Neurol. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0022-510X
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology