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]

A. Pentland, Economics: Simple market models fail the test, Nature. 525 (2015) 190–191.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Kirzhner, G. Koren, Pairing and the phase diagram of the normal coherence length ξN(T, x) above Tc of La(2-x)Sr(x)CuO4 thin films probed by the Josephson effect, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6244.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Laxon, N. Peacock, D. Smith, High interannual variability of sea ice thickness in the Arctic region, Nature. 425 (2003) 947–950.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L.J. Jensen, T.S. Jensen, U. de Lichtenberg, S. Brunak, P. Bork, Co-evolution of transcriptional and post-translational cell-cycle regulation, Nature. 443 (2006) 594–597.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Y. Posudin, Methods of Measuring Environmental Parameters, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

S.H. Francis, M. Conti, M.D. Houslay, eds., Phosphodiesterases as Drug Targets, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.J. Hodson, M. Turner, THE ROLE OF PI3K SIGNALLING IN THE B CELL RESPONSE TO ANTIGEN, in: S.P. Schoenberger, P.D. Katsikis, B. Pulendran (Eds.), Crossroads between Innate and Adaptive Immunity II, Springer, New York, NY, 2009: pp. 43–53.

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]

D. Andrew, Ice ages Have Been Linked To The Earth’s Wobbly Orbit – But When Is The Next One?, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/ice-ages-have-been-linked-to-the-earths-wobbly-orbit-but-when-is-the-next-one/ (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 Safety: Limited Success Rebuilding Staff and Finalizing Aging Aircraft Plan, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Nam, A method for teaching jazz improvisation to beginning pianists in a group setting, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

G. Vecsey, In Season of Defense, Recalling Swoboda’s Catch, New York Times. (2009) B19.

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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