How to format your references using the Neurobiology of Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurobiology of Disease. 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

Kirkpatrick, S., 2003. Computer science. Rough times ahead. Science 299, 668–669.

A journal article with 2 authors

Melnick, J.G., Parkin, G., 2007. Cleaving mercury-alkyl bonds: a functional model for mercury detoxification by MerB. Science 317, 225–227.

A journal article with 3 authors

Korobova, F., Ramabhadran, V., Higgs, H.N., 2013. An actin-dependent step in mitochondrial fission mediated by the ER-associated formin INF2. Science 339, 464–467.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

He, L., Xue, L., Xu, J., McNeil, B.D., Bai, L., Melicoff, E., Adachi, R., Wu, L.-G., 2009. Compound vesicle fusion increases quantal size and potentiates synaptic transmission. Nature 459, 93–97.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaisler, S.H., 2005. Software Paradigms. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Larvor, B. (Ed.), 2016. Mathematical Cultures: The London Meetings 2012-2014, Trends in the History of Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bykovsky, V.K., 2008. Data-Driven Modeling of Complex Systems, in: Minai, A., Braha, D., Bar-Yam, Y. (Eds.), Unifying Themes in Complex Systems: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 34–41.

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 Neurobiology of Disease.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. What Is The MERS Outbreak In South Korea? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1991. New Denver Airport: Safety, Construction, Capacity, and Financing Considerations (No. RCED-91-240). 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

Skiold-Hanlin, S., 2015. Functional and Ecological Aspects of the Mucus Trails of the Freshwater Gastropod Elimia potosiensis (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Eligon, J., Alcindor, Y., Armendariz, A., 2017. Tax Credits to House Poor Reinforce Racial Divisions. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kirkpatrick, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kirkpatrick, 2003; Melnick and Parkin, 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Melnick and Parkin, 2007)
Three or more authors: (He et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurobiology of Disease
Abbreviation	Neurobiol. Dis.
ISSN (print)	0969-9961
Scope	Neurology