How to format your references using the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory citation style

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

Levinger, N. E. (2002). Chemistry. Water in confinement. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5599), 1722–1723.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morrison, S. J., & Kimble, J. (2006). Asymmetric and symmetric stem-cell divisions in development and cancer. Nature, 441(7097), 1068–1074.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bick, A. G., Calvo, S. E., & Mootha, V. K. (2012). Evolutionary diversity of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6083), 886.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Jang, J.-H., Lee, E., Park, J., Kim, G., Hong, S., & Kwon, Y.-U. (2013). Rational syntheses of core-shell Fex@Pt nanoparticles for the study of electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction. Scientific Reports, 3, 2872.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murti, Y., & Vijayan, C. (2014). Essentials of Nonlinear Optics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Marques, J. S., Pérez de la Blanca, N., & Pina, P. (Eds.). (2005). Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Second Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2005, Estoril, Portugal, June 7-9, 2005, Proceedings, Part I (Vol. 3522). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Betzig, L. (2015). The French Connection: Sex and the English Revolution. In T. K. Shackelford & R. D. Hansen (Eds.), The Evolution of Sexuality (pp. 81–98). Springer International Publishing.

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 Learning and Memory.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 1). How Yersinia Pestis Evolved its Ability to Kill Millions via Pneumonic Plague. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-yersinia-pestis-evolved-its-ability-kill-millions-pneumonic-plague/

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. (2016). Credit Programs: Key Agencies Should Better Document Procedures for Estimating Subsidy Costs (GAO-16-269). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beyer, P. D. (2010). Authentic Leadership in-extremis: A study of combat leadership [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella University.

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

Perry, W. J., & Shultz, G. P. (2010, April 11). How to Build on the Start Treaty. New York Times, WK11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Levinger, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Levinger, 2002; Morrison & Kimble, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Morrison & Kimble, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Jang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
Abbreviation	Neurobiol. Learn. Mem.
ISSN (print)	1074-7427
Scope	Behavioral Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology