How to format your references using the Neurochemistry International citation style

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

Gravitz, L., 2011. Introduction: a smouldering public-health crisis. Nature 474, S2-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wynia, M.K., Gostin, L., 2002. Medicine. The bioterrorist threat and access to health care. Science 296, 1613.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matzke, M., Matzke, A.J., Kooter, J.M., 2001. RNA: guiding gene silencing. Science 293, 1080–1083.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jiang, Z.H., Lin, L., Ma, D., Yun, S., Werner, D.H., Liu, Z., Mayer, T.S., 2014. Broadband and wide field-of-view plasmonic metasurface-enabled waveplates. Sci. Rep. 4, 7511.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schweiker, W., 2010. Dust that Breathes. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Tsesis, I. (Ed.), 2014. Complications in Endodontic Surgery: Prevention, Identification and Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Barry, P., Rajković, P.M., Petković, M.D., 2011. An Application of Sobolev Orthogonal Polynomials to the Computation of a Special Hankel Determinant, in: Gautschi, W., Mastroianni, G., Rassias, T.M. (Eds.), Approximation and Computation: In Honor of Gradimir V. Milovanović, Springer Optimization and Its Applications. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 53–60.

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 Neurochemistry International.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. Spotting The Solos In The Cosmic Choir Of Black Holes [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/spotting-the-solos-in-the-cosmic-choir-of-black-holes/ (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, 2002. Federal Student Aid: Additional Management Improvements Would Clarify Strategic Direction and Enhance Accountability (No. GAO-02-255). 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

Chung, Y.-K., 2010. A comparison of particle swarm optimization algorithms in data clustering (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Feeney, K., 2008. A Produce Auction With an Eye to Survival. New York Times NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gravitz, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Gravitz, 2011; Wynia and Gostin, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Wynia and Gostin, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Jiang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurochemistry International
Abbreviation	Neurochem. Int.
ISSN (print)	0197-0186
Scope	Cell Biology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience