How to format your references using the neurogenetics citation style

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

Orhon D (2014) Istanbul canal needs environmental study. Nature 513:461

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhat SG, Kumar PSA (2014) Room temperature electrical spin injection into GaAs by an oxide spin injector. Sci Rep 4:5588

A journal article with 3 authors

Mayor M, Lovis C, Santos NC (2014) Doppler spectroscopy as a path to the detection of Earth-like planets. Nature 513:328–335

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jang M, Czoschke NM, Lee S, Kamens RM (2002) Heterogeneous atmospheric aerosol production by acid-catalyzed particle-phase reactions. Science 298:814–817

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Metzger RM (2012) The Physical Chemist’s Toolbox. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sommaruga G (2011) Foundational Theories of Classical and Constructive Mathematics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Mumford-Valenzuela CL (2005) A Simple Approach to Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization. In: Abraham A, Jain L, Goldberg R (eds) Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization: Theoretical Advances and Applications. Springer, London, pp 55–79

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 neurogenetics.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) What Would Happen If You Tried To Stand On Jupiter? In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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) Schedule Delays and Cost Overruns Plague DOD Automated Information Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Narita D (2008) Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) and climate change mitigation: An analysis of economic optimality and policy making. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

Harris G, Schwartz J, Calmes J, Martin J (2016) Donald Trump Holds ‘Thank You’ Rally in Cincinnati, and Announces His Pick for Defense Secretary. New York Times A18

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	neurogenetics
Abbreviation	Neurogenetics
ISSN (print)	1364-6745
ISSN (online)	1364-6753
Scope	Genetics Genetics(clinical) Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience