How to format your references using the Neurodegenerative Diseases citation style

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

MacWilliams B. Russia pulls out of Antarctic station. Nature. 2003 Mar;422(6928):104.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fine M, Tchernov D. Scleractinian coral species survive and recover from decalcification. Science. 2007 Mar;315(5820):1811.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sekiguchi Y, Arai K, Kohshima S. Sleep behaviour: sleep in continuously active dolphins. Nature. 2006 Jun;441(7096):E9-10; discussion E11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chugunov AO, Volynsky PE, Krylov NA, Boldyrev IA, Efremov RG. Liquid but durable: molecular dynamics simulations explain the unique properties of archaeal-like membranes. Sci Rep. 2014 Dec;4:7462.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kontush A, Chapman MJ. High-Density Lipoproteins. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Billett S, editor. Learning Through Practice: Models, Traditions, Orientations and Approaches. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang D, Su Z, Qi K, Xin G, Wei P. RPECA-Rumor Propagation Based Eventual Consistency Assessment Algorithm. In: Chen Y, Ienne P, Ji Q, editors. Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies: 11th International Symposium, APPT 2015, Jinan, China, August 20-21, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 60–72.

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 Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Blog post

Andrew E. Direct Brain-To-Brain Communication Used in Humans [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Sep [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/direct-brain-brain-communication-used-humans/

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

Government Accountability Office. USDA Restructuring: Refocus Info Share Program on Business Processes Rather Than Technology. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

DeSpain L. The relationship between police supervisor training and job satisfaction levels as reported by patrol officers. 2008

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

Brantley B. A Nation Born of Sniping, Squabbling and Deadlock: Helloo? New York Times. 2016 Mar;C5.

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	Neurodegenerative Diseases
Abbreviation	Neurodegener. Dis.
ISSN (print)	1660-2854
ISSN (online)	1660-2862
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology