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

Tsay Y-F (2014) Plant science: How to switch affinity. Nature 507:44–45

A journal article with 2 authors

Heisler IA, Meech SR (2010) Low-frequency modes of aqueous alkali halide solutions: glimpsing the hydrogen bonding vibration. Science 327:857–860

A journal article with 3 authors

Locher KP, Lee AT, Rees DC (2002) The E. coli BtuCD structure: a framework for ABC transporter architecture and mechanism. Science 296:1091–1098

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Aguilaniu H, Gustafsson L, Rigoulet M, Nyström T (2003) Asymmetric inheritance of oxidatively damaged proteins during cytokinesis. Science 299:1751–1753

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stockinger P (2013) Audiovisual Archives. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Claypool M, Uhlig S (2008) Passive and Active Network Measurement: 9th International Conference, PAM 2008, Cleveland, OH, USA, April 29-30, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Smith TW (2016) Of Hats and Scientific Laughter. In: Willis M (ed) Staging Science: Scientific Performance on Street, Stage and Screen. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp 59–82

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

Fang J (2015) Two Supermassive Black Holes Set To Collide. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/supermassive-black-hole-merger-unleashes-energy-100-million-supernovae/. 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 (2015) National Institutes of Health: Better Oversight Needed to Help Ensure Continued Progress Including Women in Health Research. 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

Duan C (2004) Dynamic Analysis of Dry Friction Path in a Torsional System. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Vecsey G (2010) A Foreign Game Looks Very American. New York Times B12

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