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

Butler, D., 2004. The fertility riddle. Nature 432, 38–39.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schlein, Y., Jacobson, R.L., 2001. Hunger tolerance and Leishmania in sandflies. Nature 414, 168.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nowak, M.A., Komarova, N.L., Niyogi, P., 2001. Evolution of universal grammar. Science 291, 114–118.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rutter, G.M., Crain, J.N., Guisinger, N.P., Li, T., First, P.N., Stroscio, J.A., 2007. Scattering and interference in epitaxial graphene. Science 317, 219–222.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonnet, P., 2013. Enterprise Data Governance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Knahr, K. (Ed.), 2012. Total Hip Arthroplasty: Wear Behaviour of Different Articulations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Lourenço, R., Lourenço, N., Horta, N., 2015. Multi-objective Framework Implementation, in: Lourenço, N., Horta, N. (Eds.), AIDA-CMK: Multi-Algorithm Optimization Kernel Applied to Analog IC Sizing, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 33–41.

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, E., 2015. Watch a Starfish Force a Microchip out of Its Body [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-starfish-force-microchip-out-its-body/ (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, 1995. University Research: U.S. Reimbursement of Tuition Costs for University Employee Family Members (No. NSIAD-95-19). 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

Collins, J.D., 2012. Answers in diagenesis: Assessing mussel shell diagenesis in the modern vadose zone at Lyon’s Bluff (22OK520), northeast Mississippi (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Hodara, S., 2015. Artifacts From a Battle That Never Was. New York Times WE10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Butler, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Butler, 2004; Schlein and Jacobson, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Schlein and Jacobson, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Rutter et al., 2007)

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