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

Cifelli RL (2015) Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925-2015). Nature 520:158

A journal article with 2 authors

Boots M, Mealor M (2007) Local interactions select for lower pathogen infectivity. Science 315:1284–1286

A journal article with 3 authors

Ginsberg MR, Rubin RA, Natowicz MR (2013) Patterning of regional gene expression in autism: new complexity. Sci Rep 3:1831

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Clantin B, Delattre A-S, Rucktooa P, et al (2007) Structure of the membrane protein FhaC: a member of the Omp85-TpsB transporter superfamily. Science 317:957–961

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chowdhury S (2016) Optimization and Business Improvement Studies in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Tosti A, Beer K, De Padova MP (2012) Management of Complications of Cosmetic Procedures: Handling Common and More Uncommon Problems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bivand RS, Pebesma E, Gómez-Rubio V (2013) Further Methods for Handling Spatial Data. In: Pebesma E, Gómez-Rubio V (eds) Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R. Springer, New York, NY, pp 127–150

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

Luntz S (2017) Signs Of Life From 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Hot Springs Could Change Mars Mission Target. In: IFLScience. 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 (1993) Educational Achievement Standards: NAGB’s Approach Yields Misleading Interpretations. 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

Harris R (2011) Stone circles and sandplay therapy: The language of symbols. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Joy S (2015) Pursuing Inside-Out Strategies. New York Times D17

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