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

Bobrow, M. (2011). Regulate research at the animal-human interface. Nature, 475(7357), 448.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cywes, C., & Wessels, M. R. (2001). Group A Streptococcus tissue invasion by CD44-mediated cell signalling. Nature, 414(6864), 648–652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, M., Butka, E., & Wang, X. (2014). Comprehensive quantification of triacylglycerols in soybean seeds by electrospray ionization mass spectrometry with multiple neutral loss scans. Scientific Reports, 4, 6581.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Genoux, D., Haditsch, U., Knobloch, M., Michalon, A., Storm, D., & Mansuy, I. M. (2002). Protein phosphatase 1 is a molecular constraint on learning and memory. Nature, 418(6901), 970–975.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tyson, H. (2010). Microsoft® Word 2010 Bible. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

König, A., Dengel, A., Hinkelmann, K., Kise, K., Howlett, R. J., & Jain, L. C. (Eds.). (2011). Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 15th International Conference, KES 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 12-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV (Vol. 6884). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wassenaar, T. M., & Newell, D. G. (2006). The Genus Campylobacter. In M. Dworkin, S. Falkow, E. Rosenberg, K.-H. Schleifer, & E. Stackebrandt (Eds.), The Prokaryotes: Volume 7: Proteobacteria: Delta, Epsilon Subclass (pp. 119–138). 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

Davis, J. (2015, June 11). Eating Human Brains Drove Evolution In Remote Tribe. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/tribe-evolved-response-eating-human-brains/

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. (1975). College Work-Study Program (No. 089627). 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

Browning, A. (2012). An electronic on-board recorder for intermodal drayage operations [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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, May 19). Sharapova’s Entry to Wimbledon: Qualify. New York Times, D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bobrow, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Bobrow, 2011; Cywes & Wessels, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Cywes & Wessels, 2001)
Three authors: (Li et al., 2014)
6 or more authors: (Genoux et al., 2002)

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

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