How to format your references using the Neurocritical Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurocritical Care. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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. Abbott A. Babies’ cancer screens “not needed.” Nature. 2002;416:356.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Choi J-K, Bowles S. The coevolution of parochial altruism and war. Science. 2007;318:636–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chisholm MF, Kumar S, Hazzledine P. Dislocations in complex materials. Science. 2005;307:701–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Freitas-Junior LH, Bottius E, Pirrit LA, Deitsch KW, Scheidig C, Guinet F, et al. Frequent ectopic recombination of virulence factor genes in telomeric chromosome clusters of P. falciparum. Nature. 2000;407:1018–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Levander CF. Where is American Literature? Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell; 2013.

An edited book

1. Crane D. Comet and Reverse Ajax: The Next-Generation Ajax 2.0. McCarthy P, editor. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Singh SK. Scenario of Urban Transport in Indian Cities: Challenges and the Way Forward. In: Dev SM, Yedla S, editors. Cities and Sustainability: Issues and Strategic Pathways. New Delhi: Springer India; 2015. p. 81–111.

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 Neurocritical Care.

Blog post

1. Taub B. Scientists May Have Implanted An Artificial Vision Into The Brain Of A Mouse [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-implanted-artificial-vision-brain-mouse/

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. National Mediation Board: Progress Made on Some GAO Recommendations to Strengthen Operations, but Key Controls Continue to Be Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Feb. Report No.: GAO-16-240.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Volle M. Exploring the relationship of meetings to organizational culture and values [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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. Wagner J. The Mets’ Past Bonds With the Mets’ Future. New York Times. 2017 Aug 3;B11.

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	Neurocritical Care
Abbreviation	Neurocrit. Care
ISSN (print)	1541-6933
ISSN (online)	1556-0961
Scope	Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Clinical Neurology