How to format your references using the Journal of Vestibular Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Vestibular Research (JVR). 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]

F. Press, Earth science and society, Nature 451 (2008), 301–303.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Woodroffe and S.M. Redpath, CONSERVATION. When the hunter becomes the hunted, Science 348 (2015), 1312–1314.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Weisz, E. Glowatzki, and P. Fuchs, The postsynaptic function of type II cochlear afferents, Nature 461 (2009), 1126–1129.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.J. Anderson, M.H. Acuña, H. Korth, M.E. Purucker, C.L. Johnson, J.A. Slavin, S.C. Solomon, and R.L. McNutt Jr, The structure of Mercury’s magnetic field from MESSENGER’s first flyby, Science 321 (2008), 82–85.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Jenkinson, T. Hyde, and S. Ahmad, Building Blocks for Learning: Occupational Therapy Approaches, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

G.D. Roth, ed., Handbook of Practical Astronomy, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C.R. Boër, P. Pedrazzoli, A. Bettoni, and M. Sorlini, Assessment of Sustainable MC Production in a Selected Test Case, in: : Mass Customization and Sustainability: An Assessment Framework and Industrial Implementation, P. Pedrazzoli, A. Bettoni, and M. Sorlini (Eds.), Springer, London, 2013, pp. 143–167.

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 Vestibular Research.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Not Too Brutish: Neanderthals Hunted Pigeons, IFLScience (2014).

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, Federal Railroad Administration: Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program--Revisions, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Tam, Adaptation of AspectJ for C sharp, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

W. Grimes, Nina Ponomareva, Winner of Historic Gold, Dies at 87, New York Times (2016), B7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [3,6–8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Vestibular Research
ISSN (print)	0957-4271
ISSN (online)	1878-6464
Scope