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

May, M., 2013. Heart health. Nature 493, S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mühlenbruch, B., Jochimsen, M.A., 2013. Research policy: Only wholesale reform will bring equality. Nature 495, 40–42.

A journal article with 3 authors

Long, S.B., Campbell, E.B., Mackinnon, R., 2005. Voltage sensor of Kv1.2: structural basis of electromechanical coupling. Science 309, 903–908.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vecchio, I.L., Perucchi, A., Di Pietro, P., Limaj, O., Schade, U., Sun, Y., Arai, M., Yamaura, K., Lupi, S., 2013. Infrared evidence of a Slater metal-insulator transition in NaOsO₃. Sci. Rep. 3, 2990.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wong, K.D., 2011. Fundamentals of Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zong, C., Nie, J.-Y., Zhao, D., Feng, Y. (Eds.), 2014. Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing: Third CCF Conference, NLPCC 2014, Shenzhen, China, December 5-9, 2014. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Vazquez, R., Krstic, M., 2008. 2D Navier–Stokes Channel Flow: Boundary Stabilization, in: Krstic, M. (Ed.), Control of Turbulent and Magnetohydrodynamic Channel Flows: Boundary Stabilization and State Estimation, Systems&Control: Foundations&Applications. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, pp. 71–102.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. First Ever Footage Of Terrifying Deep-Sea Animal [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rarely-seen-anglerfish-caught-california-coast/ (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, 2013. Positive Train Control: Additional Authorities Could Benefit Implementation (No. GAO-13-720). 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

Klein, K.A., 2009. Vocabulary acquisition via cross-situational learning (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2003. World Briefing | Europe: Moldova: Putin Cancels Visit. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (May, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (May, 2013; Mühlenbruch and Jochimsen, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Mühlenbruch and Jochimsen, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Vecchio et al., 2013)

About the journal

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