How to format your references using the Neuroepidemiology citation style

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

Smith A. Life beyond the walls. Nature. 2002 Feb;415(6872):7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clausen J, Junge W. Detection of an intermediate of photosynthetic water oxidation. Nature. 2004 Jul;430(6998):480–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wong KM, Suchard MA, Huelsenbeck JP. Alignment uncertainty and genomic analysis. Science. 2008 Jan;319(5862):473–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xie X, Zhou Y, Bi H, Yin K, Wan S, Sun L. Large-range control of the microstructures and properties of three-dimensional porous graphene. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartley T. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Lockwood DJ, Pavesi L, editors. Silicon Photonics II: Components and Integration. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Ru Y, Eyden B. Lymphoma and Leukaemia. In: Banerjee SS, Ru Y, Liberski P, editors. The Ultrastructure of Human Tumours: Applications in Diagnosis and Research. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013; pp 363–490.

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 Neuroepidemiology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. How “Star In A Jar” Technology Could Change Our World Forever [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Jan [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-star-in-a-jar-technology-could-change-our-world-forever/

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. Broadband Performance: Additional Actions Could Help FCC Evaluate Its Efforts to Inform Consumers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dammann NM. Living in the edge: Community based governance in the aquatic terrestrial zone. 2009

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

Kwai I. Protests Over Punishment For Killing Aboriginal Teen. New York Times. 2017 Jul;A6.

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	Neuroepidemiology
Abbreviation	Neuroepidemiology
ISSN (print)	0251-5350
ISSN (online)	1423-0208
Scope	Epidemiology Clinical Neurology