How to format your references using the Neural Plasticity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neural Plasticity. 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

[1]

G. Fishell, “Hurricane Sandy: After the deluge.,” Nature. vol. 496, no. 7446, pp. 421–422, 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Boettiger and A. Hastings, “Tipping points: From patterns to predictions.,” Nature. vol. 493, no. 7431, pp. 157–158, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Hillebrandt, K.J. Friston, and S.-J. Blakemore, “Effective connectivity during animacy perception--dynamic causal modelling of Human Connectome Project data.,” Scientific reports. vol. 4, p. 6240, 2014.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

J.Y. Kim, K. Lee, N.E. Coates, et al., “Efficient tandem polymer solar cells fabricated by all-solution processing.,” Science (New York, N.Y.). vol. 317, no. 5835, pp. 222–225, 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G.O. Bruen, WHOIS Running the Internet. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

P. Hannaford, Ed., Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy. Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Han and B. Lee, “Development of Early Tunnel Fire Detection Algorithm Using the Image Processing.,” In: G. Bebis, R. Boyle, B. Parvin, et al., Eds. Advances in Visual Computing: Second International Symposium, ISVC 2006 Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, November 6-8, 2006. Proceedings, Part II. pp. 39–48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006).

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 Neural Plasticity.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, “Ancient Deep Skull Still Holds Big Surprises 60 Years After It Was Unearthed,” https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-deep-skull-still-holds-big-surprises-60-years-after-it-was-unearthed/.

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, Risk Management: Further Refinements Needed to Assess Risks and Prioritize Protective Measures at Ports and Other Critical Infrastructure. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Andrews, “Yoga as mental health treatment for cancer survivors: A grant proposal,” (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]

R.W. Kelly, “Quotation of the Day,” (2009).

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	Neural Plasticity
Abbreviation	Neural Plast.
ISSN (print)	2090-5904
ISSN (online)	1687-5443
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology