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]

B. Morgan, Research impact: income for outcome, Nature. 511 (2014) S72-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.C. Davis, K.J. Wurdack, Host-to-parasite gene transfer in flowering plants: phylogenetic evidence from Malpighiales, Science. 305 (2004) 676–678.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L.W. Runnels, L. Yue, D.E. Clapham, TRP-PLIK, a bifunctional protein with kinase and ion channel activities, Science. 291 (2001) 1043–1047.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Reya, S.J. Morrison, M.F. Clarke, I.L. Weissman, Stem cells, cancer, and cancer stem cells, Nature. 414 (2001) 105–111.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Williamson, Identity and Discrimination, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

W. Houkes, Technical Functions: On the Use and Design of Artefacts, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Velde, P. Barré, The Chemistry and Mineralogy of Plant and Soil Interactions: Plant as Manipulators of Their Environment, in: P. Barré (Ed.), Soils, Plants and Clay Minerals: Mineral and Biologic Interactions, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 171–254.

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]

E. Andrew, Rapid Growth Of The Cerebellum May Have Helped Shape Human Evolution, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/rapid-growth-cerebellum-may-have-helped-shape-human-evolution/ (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, Head Start: Information on Federal Funds Unspent by Program Grantees, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.J. Ferris, Numerical investigations of flow past a partially rotating stepped cylinder, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

R. Nordland, S. Timur, Turkey Fires 15,000 More Public Workers in Crackdown, New York Times. (2016) A11.

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

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