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]

S. Schaffer, The laird of physics, Nature 471 (2011) 289–291.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. O’Grady, G. O’Hare, Computer science. How smart is your city?, Science 335 (2012) 1581–1582.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.J. Kulathinal, B.R. Bettencourt, D.L. Hartl, Compensated deleterious mutations in insect genomes, Science 306 (2004) 1553–1554.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Mayer, A. Niveleau, J. Walter, R. Fundele, T. Haaf, Demethylation of the zygotic paternal genome, Nature 403 (2000) 501–502.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.C. Hu, Asset Securitization, John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

A. Hirose, S. Ozawa, K. Doya, K. Ikeda, M. Lee, D. Liu, eds., Neural Information Processing: 23rd International Conference, ICONIP 2016, Kyoto, Japan, October 16–21, 2016, Proceedings, Part III, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Ovrén, P.-E. Forssén, D. Törnqvist, Improving RGB-D Scene Reconstruction Using Rolling Shutter Rectification, in: Y. Sun, A. Behal, C.-K.R. Chung (Eds.), New Development in Robot Vision, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015: pp. 55–71.

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, Newly Identified Hormone Reduces Diet-Induced Obesity In Rodents, IFLScience (2015).

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, Charter Schools: New Charter Schools Across the Country and in the District of Columbia Face Similar Start-Up Challenges, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.-C. Liang, Fate of bacterial and viral indicators in an advanced wastewater treatment plant, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2013.

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]

J. Wagner, Mets’ Pitching Coach Offers Wisdom and Wit, New York Times (2017) D6.

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