How to format your references using the Neurocase citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurocase. 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	Download the output style file
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

Winker, K. (2000). Migration and speciation. Nature, 404(6773), 36.

A journal article with 2 authors

Medzhitov, R., & Littman, D. (2008). HIV immunology needs a new direction. Nature, 455(7213), 591.

A journal article with 3 authors

Diddams, S. A., Hollberg, L., & Mbele, V. (2007). Molecular fingerprinting with the resolved modes of a femtosecond laser frequency comb. Nature, 445(7128), 627–630.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xin, H., Zhang, Y., Lei, H., Li, Y., Zhang, H., & Li, B. (2013). Optofluidic realization and retaining of cell-cell contact using an abrupt tapered optical fibre. Scientific Reports, 3, 1993.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klepinger, L. L. (2006). Fundamentals of Forensic Anthropology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Macey, G. P., & Cannon, J. Z. (Eds.). (2007). Reclaiming the Land: Rethinking Superfund Institutions, Methods and Practices. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Müller, I., Han, J., Schneider, J.-G., & Versteeg, S. (2009). A Conceptual Framework for Unified and Comprehensive SOA Management. In G. Feuerlicht & W. Lamersdorf (Eds.), Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2008 Workshops: ICSOC 2008 International Workshops, Sydney, Australia, December 1st, 2008, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 28–40). Springer.

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 Neurocase.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, February 4). UK Approves “3 Parent Baby” Technique. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/uk-allows-ivf-using-dna-three-parents/

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. (2005). Taxpayer Information: Options Exist to Enable Data Sharing Between IRS and USCIS but Each Presents Challenges (GAO-06-100). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Giuseffi, F. G. (2014). Investigation of the Influence of the Socratic Method on Leadership Skills among JROTC Cadet Leaders at a Military Boarding School [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood University.

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

Saslow, L. (2009, March 15). Nassau and Union in Deal to Avoid Layoffs. New York Times, LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Winker, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Medzhitov & Littman, 2008; Winker, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Medzhitov & Littman, 2008)
Three authors: (Diddams et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Xin et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurocase
Abbreviation	Neurocase
ISSN (print)	1355-4794
ISSN (online)	1465-3656
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Clinical Neurology