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

Hoag, H. (2007). Northern exposure for EMBL. Nature, 447(7143), 504.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wakim, L. M., & Bevan, M. J. (2011). Cross-dressed dendritic cells drive memory CD8+ T-cell activation after viral infection. Nature, 471(7340), 629–632.

A journal article with 3 authors

Acuna, D. E., Allesina, S., & Kording, K. P. (2012). Future impact: Predicting scientific success. Nature, 489(7415), 201–202.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sokol, A. M., Cruet-Hennequart, S., Pasero, P., & Carty, M. P. (2013). DNA polymerase η modulates replication fork progression and DNA damage responses in platinum-treated human cells. Scientific Reports, 3, 3277.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Parker, J. S., & Anderson, R. L. (2014). Low-Energy Lunar Trajectory Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rattan, S. I. S., & Kassem, M. (Eds.). (2006). Prevention and Treatment of Age-related Diseases. Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Klein, N., Hurwitz, I., & Durvasula, R. (2013). Chagas Disease: Global Epidemiology and Evolving Methods for Control. In V. S. H. Rao & R. Durvasula (Eds.), Dynamic Models of Infectious Diseases: Volume 1: Vector-Borne Diseases (pp. 139–167). Springer.

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

Luntz, S. (2015, July 7). Stephen Fry Gets His Own Asteroid. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/stephen-fry-gets-his-own-asteroid/

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. (2007). Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Progress Has Been Made, but Improvements Are Needed to Effectively Manage Risks (GAO-08-18). 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

Chapple, C. M. (2015). A: Application of Polymeric Quaternary Ammonium Surfactant Clay Intercalates in Triphase Catalysis B: Effect of Various Compatibilizers in Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites [Doctoral dissertation]. Southern Illinois 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

Greenhouse, L. (2006, December 8). Antitrust Policy Ambiguity To Be on Justices’ Docket. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hoag, 2007; Wakim & Bevan, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Wakim & Bevan, 2011)
Three authors: (Acuna et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Sokol 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