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.E. Bradner, Cancer: An essential passenger with p53, Nature. 520 (2015) 626–627.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.R. Anglin, W. Ketterle, Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic gases, Nature. 416 (2002) 211–218.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Mei, Y. Chen, J. Ma, Gas sensing of SnO2 nanocrystals revisited: developing ultra-sensitive sensors for detecting the H2S leakage of biogas, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6028.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Zou, T. Conradsson, M. Klingstedt, M.S. Dadachov, M. O’Keeffe, A mesoporous germanium oxide with crystalline pore walls and its chiral derivative, Nature. 437 (2005) 716–719.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y. Motai Ph.D., Data-Variant Kernel Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

J.-C. Falmagne, On Meaningful Scientific Laws, 1st ed. 2015, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W.B. Smith, R. Daubert, Hammertoes and MTP Instability in the Athlete, in: T.M. Philbin (Ed.), Sports Injuries of the Foot: Evolving Diagnosis and Treatment, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2014: pp. 49–59.

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]

A. Carpineti, Unexplainable UFO Phenomena To Be Scientifically Analyzed In New Project, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ufodata-will-study-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-scientifically/ (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, Catalog of Human Resource Development Activities, 1988, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Fresolone, The pedagogical use of Gerald Near’s “Chantworks,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2012.

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. Parker, Dear Diary (Volume 1 of 148), New York Times. (2016) BR23.

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

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