How to format your references using the Neurochemical Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurochemical Research. 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

McCarty JG (2000) Durable catalysts for cleaner air. Nature 403:35–36

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen W, Du J (2013) Ultrasound and pH dually responsive polymer vesicles for anticancer drug delivery. Sci Rep 3:2162

A journal article with 3 authors

Chuang JS, Rivoire O, Leibler S (2009) Simpson’s paradox in a synthetic microbial system. Science 323:272–275

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Robert T, Vanoli F, Chiolo I, et al (2011) HDACs link the DNA damage response, processing of double-strand breaks and autophagy. Nature 471:74–79

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bahadori A (2013) Waste Management in the Chemical and Petroleum Industries. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Brunner RD (2010) Adaptive Governance and Climate Change. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Gieskes WWC, Leterme SC, Peletier H, et al (2007) Phaeocystis colony distribution in the North Atlantic Ocean since 1948, and interpretation of long-term changes in the Phaeocystis hotspot in the North Sea. In: Leeuwe MA van, Stefels J, Belviso S, et al (eds) Phaeocystis, major link in the biogeochemical cycling of climate-relevant elements. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 49–60

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 Neurochemical Research.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Researchers Record Chimpanzee Mother Caring For Her Disabled Child In The Wild. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-record-chimpanzee-mother-caring-her-disabled-child-wild0/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1985) U.S. Citizens Studying Medicine Abroad. 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

Gandarilla AH (2009) Family preservation: A content analysis of literature. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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; Clinton Again Faces Draft Issue As He Returns to New Hampshire. New York Times 120

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurochemical Research
Abbreviation	Neurochem. Res.
ISSN (print)	0364-3190
ISSN (online)	1573-6903
Scope	Biochemistry General Medicine Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience