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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Sreenivasan, Sameet. 2013. Quantitative analysis of the evolution of novelty in cinema through crowdsourced keywords. Scientific reports 3: 2758.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kurtz, Joachim, and Karoline Franz. 2003. Innate defence: evidence for memory in invertebrate immunity. Nature 425: 37–38.

A journal article with 3 authors

Barsic, Anthony, Ginni Grover, and Rafael Piestun. 2014. Three-dimensional super-resolution and localization of dense clusters of single molecules. Scientific reports 4: 5388.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wheeler, Thurman M., Krzysztof Sobczak, John D. Lueck, Robert J. Osborne, Xiaoyan Lin, Robert T. Dirksen, and Charles A. Thornton. 2009. Reversal of RNA dominance by displacement of protein sequestered on triplet repeat RNA. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325: 336–339.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiBerardinis, Louis J., Janet S. Baum, Melvin W. First, Gari T. Gatwood, and Anand K. Seth. 2013. Guidelines for Laboratory Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Grüne, Lars. 2011. Nonlinear Model Predictive Control: Theory and Algorithms. Edited by Jürgen Pannek. Communications and Control Engineering. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rezaizadeh, Houman, and Erik Olson. 2016. General GI Motility Disorders. In Pocket Handbook of GI Pharmacotherapeutics, ed. George Y. Wu, 31–44. Clinical Gastroenterology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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. Coldest Place In The Universe Looks Like A Ghost. IFLScience. IFLScience. October 30.

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. 2014. Maritime Critical Infrastructure Protection: DHS Needs to Better Address Port Cybersecurity. GAO-14-459. 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

Gajewski, Thomas J. 2014. Exploring leadership styles from a mediator’s perspective: A phenomenological study examining four specific organizational leadership styles and their relationship to four mediation styles as summarized by Leonard L. Riskin. Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Link, Kelly. 2015. Subversive Pleasure. New York Times, May 24.

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