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

Del Genio, Anthony D. 2002. Atmospheric science. The dust settles on water vapor feedback. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296: 665–666.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fletcher, Daniel A., and R. Dyche Mullins. 2010. Cell mechanics and the cytoskeleton. Nature 463: 485–492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, Chi, Xiao-Dong Shang, and Rui Xin Huang. 2014. Horizontal eddy energy flux in the world oceans diagnosed from altimetry data. Scientific reports 4: 5316.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gunjakar, Jayavant L., Tae Woo Kim, In Young Kim, Jang Mee Lee, and Seong-Ju Hwang. 2013. Highly efficient visible light-induced O₂ generation by self-assembled nanohybrids of inorganic nanosheets and polyoxometalate nanoclusters. Scientific reports 3: 2080.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mansour, Mahmoud, Ray Wilhite, and Joe Rowe. 2017. Guide to Ruminant Anatomy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kanayama, Yoshinori, and Alexey Kochetov, ed. 2015. Abiotic Stress Biology in Horticultural Plants. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

A chapter in an edited book

Gunderson, Erica P. 2014. Epidemiologic Trends and Maternal Risk Factors Predicting Postpartum Weight Retention. In Obesity During Pregnancy in Clinical Practice, ed. Wanda Nicholson and Kesha Baptiste-Roberts, 77–97. London: 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

Andrew, Elise. 2014. A Man Was Cured Of HIV In 2008, And Hardly Anyone Knows About It. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 27.

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. 2005. Passenger Rail Security: Enhanced Federal Leadership Needed to Prioritize and Guide Security Efforts. GAO-06-181T. 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

Spindel, Samantha Anne. 2014. Evaluation of optical sensor platforms for multiplexed detection of proteins. Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Hubbard, Ben, Mark Mazzetti, and Eric Schmitt. 2017. Saudi King’s Son Plotted Effort to Oust His Rival. New York Times, July 19.

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