How to format your references using the Nature Reviews Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nature Reviews Neurology. 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

Mann, C. C. Archaeology. Mystery towers in Peru are an ancient solar calendar. Science 315, 1206–1207 (2007).

A journal article with 2 authors

Skovran, E. & Martinez-Gomez, N. C. Microbiology. Just add lanthanides. Science 348, 862–863 (2015).

A journal article with 3 authors

Spradling, A., Drummond-Barbosa, D. & Kai, T. Stem cells find their niche. Nature 414, 98–104 (2001).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Shimoyama, T., Kato, S., Ishii, S. & Watanabe, K. Flagellum mediates symbiosis. Science 323, 1574 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marlet, R. Program Specialization. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2012).

An edited book

Moemeka, E. Real World Windows 8 App Development with JavaScript: Create Great Windows Store Apps. (Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2013).

A chapter in an edited book

Miguel, A. F. Lungs as a Natural Porous Media: Architecture, Airflow Characteristics and Transport of Suspended Particles. in Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media (ed. Delgado, J. M. P. Q.) 115–137 (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012).

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 Nature Reviews Neurology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Incredibly Preserved 47-Million-Year-Old Pregnant Mare Reveals Horse Evolution. 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

Government Accountability Office. The Lummi Indian School of Aquaculture. (1977).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Verdi, K. C. What Does It Mean to Be a Service-Learning Teacher? - An Autoethnography. (University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 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

Correal, A. & Schmidt, S. Pain and Anxiety Linger in Aftermath of a Blast. New York Times A26 (2016).

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	Nature Reviews Neurology
Abbreviation	Nat. Rev. Neurol.
ISSN (print)	1759-4758
ISSN (online)	1759-4766
Scope	Clinical Neurology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience