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

Emmons SW. Neuroscience. The mood of a worm. Science. 2012 Oct;338(6106):475–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yosef I, Qimron U. Microbiology: How bacteria get spacers from invaders. Nature. 2015 Mar;519(7542):166–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Costello MJ, May RM, Stork NE. Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct? Science. 2013 Jan;339(6118):413–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Singleton MR, Dillingham MS, Gaudier M, Kowalczykowski SC, Wigley DB. Crystal structure of RecBCD enzyme reveals a machine for processing DNA breaks. Nature. 2004 Nov;432(7014):187–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shand MA. The Chemistry and Technology of Magnesia. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Müller M, editor. Microdialysis in Drug Development. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Chayadevi ML, Raju GT. Automated Colour Segmentation of Malaria Parasite with Fuzzy and Fractal Methods. In: Jain LC, Behera HS, Mandal JK, Mohapatra DP, editors. Computational Intelligence in Data Mining - Volume 3: Proceedings of the International Conference on CIDM, 20-21 December 2014. New Delhi: Springer India; 2015; pp 53–63.

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

Hamilton K. What Is Habitat III And Why Does It Matter? A Beginner’s Guide To The New Urban Agenda [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Oct [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-is-habitat-and-why-does-it-matter-a-beginners-guide-to-the-new-urban-agenda/

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. Helium Program: Key Developments Since the Early 1990s and Future Considerations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Olson CR. Population genetic structure of two abyssal grenadiers of the north Atlantic and northeastern Pacific oceans. 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

Brantley B. A Souped-Up Revival Roars in London. New York Times. 2017 Apr;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