How to format your references using the Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms. 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

Ruiz, J., 2001. The stability against freezing of an internal liquid-water ocean in Callisto. Nature 412, 409–411.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nicolet, A., Zolla, F., 2009. Physics. Cloaking with curved spaces. Science 323, 46–47.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huber, G.W., Shabaker, J.W., Dumesic, J.A., 2003. Raney Ni-Sn catalyst for H2 production from biomass-derived hydrocarbons. Science 300, 2075–2077.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zagotta, W.N., Olivier, N.B., Black, K.D., Young, E.C., Olson, R., Gouaux, E., 2003. Structural basis for modulation and agonist specificity of HCN pacemaker channels. Nature 425, 200–205.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo, L., Keller, T., 2006. OFDM and MC-CDMA. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Adler, R.A. (Ed.), 2010. Osteoporosis: Pathophysiology and Clinical Management, Contemporary Endocrinology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Anderson, J., 2009. The China Monetary Policy Handbook, in: Barth, J.R., Tatom, J.A., Yago, G. (Eds.), China’s Emerging Financial Markets: Challenges and Opportunities, The Milken Institute Series on Financial Innovation and Economic Growth. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 167–265.

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 Sleep and Circadian Rhythms.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. What’s The Story Behind These Weird Rock Spheres Found In Siberia? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/story-behind-these-weird-rock-sphere-found-siberia/ (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, 2011. Aviation Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Improve Security, but Additional Efforts Remain (No. GAO-11-807T). 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

Chow, B.J., 2016. Forming Infrastructural Materials by Mechanical Compaction of Lunar and Martian Regolith Simulants (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

Kelly, M., 1992. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Given a Good Lead, Clinton Is No Longer Talking Tough. New York Times A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ruiz, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Nicolet and Zolla, 2009; Ruiz, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Nicolet and Zolla, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zagotta et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurobiology of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms
Abbreviation	Neurobiol. Sleep Circadian Rhythms
ISSN (print)	2451-9944
Scope	Clinical Neurology Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine Behavioral Neuroscience Neurology