How to format your references using the Neurocomputing citation style

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

[1]

G. Fitzgerald, Drug development needs a new brand of science, Nature 468 (2010) 869.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.W. Knight, B.L. Bass, A role for the RNase III enzyme DCR-1 in RNA interference and germ line development in Caenorhabditis elegans, Science 293 (2001) 2269–2271.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Barbot, N. Lapusta, J.-P. Avouac, Under the hood of the earthquake machine: toward predictive modeling of the seismic cycle, Science 336 (2012) 707–710.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Yu, D. Gius, P. Onyango, K. Muldoon-Jacobs, J. Karp, A.P. Feinberg, H. Cui, Epigenetic silencing of tumour suppressor gene p15 by its antisense RNA, Nature 451 (2008) 202–206.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T.M. Kowalick, Fatal Exit, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

T. Jenssen, ed., Glances at Renewable and Sustainable Energy: Principles, approaches and methodologies for an ambiguous benchmark, Springer, London, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Z.-J. Shen, Progress in Binary Medium Modeling of Geological Materials, in: W. Wu, H.-S. Yu (Eds.), Modern Trends in Geomechanics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 77–99.

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 Neurocomputing.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Japan Set to Restart Whaling This Year, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/japan-asked-more-evidence-justify-whale-hunt/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Potential for Cost Reduction in Providing Message Refile Services Through DOD Telecommunications Centers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.E. Kranz, Body, Land, and Memory: Counter-Narratives in the Poetry of Minnie Bruce Pratt, Brenda Marie Osbey, and Natasha Trethewey, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2017.

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

[1]

J. Poniewozik, When Leer Was King, New York Times (2017) C1.

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	Neurocomputing
Abbreviation	Neurocomputing
ISSN (print)	0925-2312
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Computer Science Applications Cognitive Neuroscience