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

Vunjak-Novakovic G. Cardiac biology: A protein for healing infarcted hearts. Nature. 2015 Sep;525(7570):461–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crawley MJ, Harral JE. Scale dependence in plant biodiversity. Science. 2001 Feb;291(5505):864–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goldblatt C, Lenton TM, Watson AJ. Bistability of atmospheric oxygen and the Great Oxidation. Nature. 2006 Oct;443(7112):683–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fujishiro A, Kaneko H, Kawashima T, Ishida M, Kawano T. In vivo neuronal action potential recordings via three-dimensional microscale needle-electrode arrays. Sci Rep. 2014 May;4:4868.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Magnasco V. Models for Bonding in Chemistry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

Lin S, Huang X, editors. Advanced Research on Computer Education, Simulation and Modeling: International Conference, CESM 2011, Wuhan, China, June 18-19, 2011. Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Varró D. Incremental Queries and Transformations: From Concepts to Industrial Applications. In: Freivalds RM, Engels G, Catania B, editors. SOFSEM 2016: Theory and Practice of Computer Science: 42nd International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Harrachov, Czech Republic, January 23-28, 2016, Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016; pp 51–9.

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

Davis J. World’s Second Breeding Population Of Critically Endangered Indochinese Tigers Discovered [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Mar

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. Transportation Infrastructure: Highway Program Consolidation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hamilton MA. Experiences of Everyday Racism: Understanding the Racial Difference in Perceptions of Physicians’ Cultural Competence. 2003

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

Shpigel B. A Familiar Ring. New York Times. 2017 Feb;D1.

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