How to format your references using the Neural Processing Letters citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Donald A (2012) Throw off the cloak of invisibility. Nature 490:447
A journal article with 2 authors
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Liu T, Khosla C (2010) Chemistry. A balancing act for Taxol precursor pathways in E. coli. Science 330:44–45
A journal article with 3 authors
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Alexander MH, Capecchi G, Werner H-J (2002) Theoretical study of the validity of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in the Cl + H2 --> HCl + H reaction. Science 296:715–718
A journal article with 5 or more authors
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La Rocca M, Creager KC, Galluzzo D, et al (2009) Cascadia tremor located near plate interface constrained by S minus P wave times. Science 323:620–623

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Gadd K (2011) TRIZ for Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK
An edited book
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Hakeem KR, Akhtar MS, Abdullah SNA (2016) Plant, Soil and Microbes: Volume 1: Implications in Crop Science, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham
A chapter in an edited book
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Chiu M-H (2013) International Response for Part I: Bridging the Gaps Between Policy and Practice on Equity for Science Education Reforms. In: Bianchini JA, Akerson VL, Barton AC, et al (eds) Moving the Equity Agenda Forward: Equity Research, Practice, and Policy in Science Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 53–61

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 Processing Letters.

Blog post
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Andrew E (2014) Octopus That Walks On Land. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/octopus-walks-land/. Accessed 30 Oct 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
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Government Accountability Office (2005) Information Technology: Federal Agencies Face Challenges in Implementing Initiatives to Improve Public Health Infrastructure. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Ghafoori E (2014) Wavelet transform and neural network. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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
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Landler M, Alcindor Y (2017) Condolence Call to Widow Ignites Trump Imbroglio. New York Times A1

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 titleNeural Processing Letters
AbbreviationNeural Process. Lett.
ISSN (print)1370-4621
ISSN (online)1573-773X
ScopeArtificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Software
General Neuroscience

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