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

Rørth, P., 2014. Cell biology. Reach out and touch someone. Science 343, 848–849.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lloyd-Jones, G.C., Ball, L.T., 2014. Catalysis. Self-control tames the coupling of reactive radicals. Science 345, 381–382.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ohtsuki, H., Iwasa, Y., Nowak, M.A., 2009. Indirect reciprocity provides only a narrow margin of efficiency for costly punishment. Nature 457, 79–82.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Michel, F.M., Ehm, L., Antao, S.M., Lee, P.L., Chupas, P.J., Liu, G., Strongin, D.R., Schoonen, M.A.A., Phillips, B.L., Parise, J.B., 2007. The structure of ferrihydrite, a nanocrystalline material. Science 316, 1726–1729.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Storhas, W., 2013. Bioverfahrensentwicklung. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Gelbukh, A. (Ed.), 2012. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 13th International Conference, CICLing 2012, New Delhi, India, March 11-17, 2012, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Carayannis, E.G., Pirzadeh, A., Popescu, D., 2012. Epistemic Communities, Knowledge Transfer, and Institutional Learning, in: Pirzadeh, A., Popescu, D. (Eds.), Institutional Learning and Knowledge Transfer Across Epistemic Communities: New Tools of Global Governance. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 123–150.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Mini-Spiral Galaxies Might Tell A Different Dark Matter Story [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, 1999. Commercial Maritime Industry: Updated Information on Federal Assessments (No. RCED-99-260). 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

Lowry, L.A., 2017. Creative Aging in Senior Centers: A Grounded Theory Study (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kanter, J., 2016. Europe’s Parliament Votes to Suspend Talks With Turkey on Joining E.U. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rørth, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lloyd-Jones and Ball, 2014; Rørth, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lloyd-Jones and Ball, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Michel et al., 2007)

About the journal

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