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]

Z.-X. Luo, Journal club. A palaeontologist ponders how genes and fossils can illuminate mammalian evolution, Nature 465 (2010) 669.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Hanrieder, A.G. Ewing, Spatial elucidation of spinal cord lipid- and metabolite- regulations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5266.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Dietz, E. Ostrom, P.C. Stern, The struggle to govern the commons, Science 302 (2003) 1907–1912.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Koren, Y.J. Kaufman, L.A. Remer, J.V. Martins, Measurement of the effect of Amazon smoke on inhibition of cloud formation, Science 303 (2004) 1342–1345.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Hahn-Deinstrop, Dünnschicht-Chromatographie, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Y.Q. Shi, H.-J. Kim, F. Perez-Gonzalez, eds., Digital Forensics and Watermarking: 10th International Workshop, IWDW 2011, Atlantic City, NY, October 23-26, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K.D. Grim, T. Rosen, Inflammatory Disorders with Unique Clinical Features, in: A.F. Alexis, V.H. Barbosa (Eds.), Skin of Color: A Practical Guide to Dermatologic Diagnosis and Treatment, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 45–90.

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. Fang, Earliest Case of Leprosy in the UK Found in 1,500-Year-Old Skeleton, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/earliest-case-leprosy-uk-found-1500-year-old-skeleton/ (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, Aviation Security: Secure Flight Development and Testing Under Way, but Risks Should Be Managed as System Is Further Developed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.H. Carrier, Using Grunig’s Situational Theory for Analysis of Frames in Human Trafficking Awareness Organizations’ YouTube Videos, 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]

B. Kenigsberg, Sex Doll, New York Times (2017) C14.

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