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

Mestel, L., 2005. Obituary: Hermann Bondi (1919-2005). Nature 437, 828.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sigala, N., Logothetis, N.K., 2002. Visual categorization shapes feature selectivity in the primate temporal cortex. Nature 415, 318–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Artyukhin, A.B., Schroeder, F.C., Avery, L., 2013. Density dependence in Caenorhabditis larval starvation. Sci. Rep. 3, 2777.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Thompson, A.M., Witte, J.C., Hudson, R.D., Guo, H., Herman, J.R., Fujiwara, M., 2001. Tropical tropospheric ozone and biomass burning. Science 291, 2128–2132.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meier, H.B., Marthinsen, J.E., Gantenbein, P.A., 2012. Swiss Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lee, S.-G., Peng, Z., Zhou, X., Moon, Y.-S., Unland, R., Yoo, J. (Eds.), 2012. Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 17th International Conference, DASFAA 2012, Busan, South Korea, April 15-19, 2012, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Siry, C., Martin, S.N., Baker, S., Lowell, N., Marvin, J., Wilson, Y., 2010. Coteaching in Science Education Courses: Transforming Teacher Preparation Through Shared Responsibility, in: Murphy, C., Scantlebury, K. (Eds.), Coteaching in International Contexts: Research and Practice, Cultural Studies of Science Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 57–78.

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

Carpineti, A., 2017. Amazing Finding Of Dunes On Rosetta’s Comet [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/amazing-finding-of-dunes-on-rosettas-comet/ (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, 1990. Aviation Safety: Management Improvement Needed in FAA’s Airworthiness Directive Program (No. RCED-90-94). 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

Harrison, A.B., 2012. Knowing the familiar (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Vecsey, G., 2010. At Home, In Any House. New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mestel, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Mestel, 2005; Sigala and Logothetis, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Sigala and Logothetis, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Thompson et al., 2001)

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