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

Benjamin S. QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY: Single Photons. Science. 2000 Dec;290(5500):2273–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Orphanides G, Reinberg D. RNA polymerase II elongation through chromatin. Nature. 2000 Sep;407(6803):471–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Depue BE, Curran T, Banich MT. Prefrontal regions orchestrate suppression of emotional memories via a two-phase process. Science. 2007 Jul;317(5835):215–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gurtner GC, Werner S, Barrandon Y, Longaker MT. Wound repair and regeneration. Nature. 2008 May;453(7193):314–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis RA. Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment. Hoboken, New Jersey, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Stein C, editor. Analgesia. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Pawlowski S, Crespo J, Velizarov S. Sustainable Power Generation from Salinity Gradient Energy by Reverse Electrodialysis. In: Ribeiro AB, Mateus EP, Couto N, editors. Electrokinetics Across Disciplines and Continents: New Strategies for Sustainable Development. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016; pp 57–80.

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 D. For $8,000, This Startup Will Fill Your Veins With The Blood Of Young People — But It Has No Idea If It’ll Have Any Benefits [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Jan

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. Submarine Technology: Transition Plans Needed to Realize Gains From DOD Advanced Research. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Capobianco VJ. Effect of slot height variation on the aerodynamic performance of a circulation control airfoil: A CFD analysis. 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

Fales-Hill S. The Slave Trader’s Portrait. New York Times. 2016 Jul;SR8.

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