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

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

Lagunoff, D., 2002. Portraits of science. A Polish, Jewish scientist in 19th-century Prussia. Science 298, 2331.

A journal article with 2 authors

McCarl, B.A., Schneider, U.A., 2001. Climate change. Greenhouse gas mitigation in U.S. agriculture and forestry. Science 294, 2481–2482.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhandary, S., Eriksson, O., Sanyal, B., 2013. Defect controlled magnetism in FeP/graphene/Ni(111). Sci. Rep. 3, 3405.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Woodhead, J.L., Zhao, F.-Q., Craig, R., Egelman, E.H., Alamo, L., Padrón, R., 2005. Atomic model of a myosin filament in the relaxed state. Nature 436, 1195–1199.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Esmailzadeh, R., 2016. Broadband Telecommunications Technologies and Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Anniko, M., Bernal-Sprekelsen, M., Bonkowsky, V., Bradley, P.J., Iurato, S. (Eds.), 2010. Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, European Manual of Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

de Figueiredo, D.G., Karlovltz, L.A., 2013. The Extension of Contractions and the Intersection of Balls in Banach Spaces, in: Costa, D.G. (Ed.), Djairo G. de Figueiredo - Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 23–33.

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 Stress.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2015. Scientists Are Tweeting Photos Of Animal Genitals In A #JunkOff [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1989. Air Traffic Control: FAA Needs to Implement an Effective Testing Program (No. IMTEC-89-62). 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

Kweider, N.M., 2014. Reading comprehension among Arabic Heritage Language Learners and the Simple View of Reading model (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

Williams, J., 2017. A Hidden Hero Brought to Light. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lagunoff, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Lagunoff, 2002; McCarl and Schneider, 2001).

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

Two authors: (McCarl and Schneider, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Woodhead et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurobiology of Stress
Abbreviation	Neurobiol. Stress
ISSN (print)	2352-2895
Scope	Biochemistry Endocrinology Molecular Biology Physiology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Endocrine and Autonomic Systems