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

Friedman, M. A. Public health. Strengthening the FDA. Science 298, 2332 (2002).

A journal article with 2 authors

Kidder, S. Q. & Vonder Haar, T. H. Atmospheric science. Observing weather from space. Science 327, 1085–1086 (2010).

A journal article with 3 authors

Curtis, R., Groarke, A. & Sullivan, F. Stress and self-efficacy predict psychological adjustment at diagnosis of prostate cancer. Sci. Rep. 4, 5569 (2014).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Jiang, Z. et al. A new silver nanorod SPR probe for detection of trace benzoyl peroxide. Sci. Rep. 4, 5323 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mohos, F. Á. Confectionery and Chocolate Engineering. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017).

An edited book

Recent Trends in Discourse and Dialogue. vol. 39 (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2008).

A chapter in an edited book

Chang, X. The Evaluation Model of Construction Industry Financial Risk Based on SVM. in Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA), 2013 (eds. Yin, Z., Pan, L. & Fang, X.) 37–44 (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013).

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

Davis, J. The Dark Web Is Actually More Of An Archipelago. IFLScience (2017).

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. Aviation Safety: FAA’s Risk-Based Oversight for Repair Stations Could Benefit from Additional Airline Data and Performance Metrics [Reissued on September 2, 2016]. (2016).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Siczek, M. M. Negotiating Socioacademic Space: The Lived Experience of International Second-Language Students in a Mainstream First-year Writing Course. (George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2014).

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

Kenigsberg, B. Whitney: Can I Be Me. New York Times C9 (2017).

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