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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurobiology of Pain. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Hughes, V., 2012. Public health: Where there’s smoke. Nature 489, S18-20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnson, T.V., Lunine, J.I., 2005. Saturn’s moon Phoebe as a captured body from the outer Solar System. Nature 435, 69–71.

A journal article with 3 authors

Abu-Raddad, L.J., Patnaik, P., Kublin, J.G., 2006. Dual infection with HIV and malaria fuels the spread of both diseases in sub-Saharan Africa. Science 314, 1603–1606.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Favors, Z., Wang, W., Bay, H.H., Mutlu, Z., Ahmed, K., Liu, C., Ozkan, M., Ozkan, C.S., 2014. Scalable synthesis of nano-silicon from beach sand for long cycle life Li-ion batteries. Sci. Rep. 4, 5623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Giannini, F., Leuzzi, G., 2005. Nonlinear Microwave Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Leicht, K.T., Jenkins, J.C. (Eds.), 2010. Handbook of Politics: State and Society in Global Perspective, Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Dall, B.E., Smith, A.G., 2015. Pathology of the Sacroiliac Joint Leading to Surgery, in: Dall, B.E., Eden, S.V., Rahl, M.D. (Eds.), Surgery for the Painful, Dysfunctional Sacroiliac Joint: A Clinical Guide. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 45–55.

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 Pain.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2013. Scientist Spotlight: In Memoriam 2013 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientist-spotlight-memoriam-2013/ (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, 1973. Additional Costs Incurred in Maintaining the National Industrial Equipment Reserve (NIER) (No. B-125187). 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

Chan, A.B., 2008. Beyond dynamic textures: A family of stochastic dynamical models for video with applications to computer vision (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Murphy, M.J.O., 2015. Theodore Roosevelt on How You Kill a Lion. New York Times C25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hughes, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Hughes, 2012; Johnson and Lunine, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Johnson and Lunine, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Favors et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurobiology of Pain
ISSN (print)	2452-073X
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