How to format your references using the Neuroethics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neuroethics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Ye, Jin. 2011. Cell biology. Protease sets site-1 on lysosomes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333: 50–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

Suzuki, Shinsuke, and Hiromichi Kimura. 2013. Indirect reciprocity is sensitive to costs of information transfer. Scientific reports 3: 1435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuckerman, Mark E., Dominik Marx, and Michele Parrinello. 2002. The nature and transport mechanism of hydrated hydroxide ions in aqueous solution. Nature 417: 925–929.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hwang, Yongsung, Samuel Suk, Yu-Ru Vernon Shih, Timothy Seo, Bin Du, Yun Xie, Ziyang Li, and Shyni Varghese. 2014. WNT3A promotes myogenesis of human embryonic stem cells and enhances in vivo engraftment. Scientific reports 4: 5916.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knudsen, Steen. 2005. A Biologist’s Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tsinganos, Kanaris, Tom Ray, and Matthias Stute, ed. 2009. Protostellar Jets in Context. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Keogh, Eamonn. 2005. Recent Advances in Mining Time Series Data. In Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2005: 9th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Porto, Portugal, October 3-7, 2005. Proceedings, ed. Alípio Mário Jorge, Luís Torgo, Pavel Brazdil, Rui Camacho, and João Gama, 6–6. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Neuroethics.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. Mercury Levels in the Surface Ocean Have Tripled Since Industrial Revolution. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 6.

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. 1989. Implementation Status of the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986. T-RCED-89-47. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCahill, Tiffany Patella. 2014. Teacher perceptions of response to intervention for English learners. Doctoral dissertation, Boca Raton, FL: Florida Atlantic University.

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

Hodara, Susan. 2017. Suburban Touches With a Bustling Downtown. New York Times, February 15.

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	Neuroethics
Abbreviation	Neuroethics
ISSN (print)	1874-5490
ISSN (online)	1874-5504
Scope	Health Policy Psychiatry and Mental health Neurology