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

Ruddick B (2003) Oceans. Sounding out ocean fine structure. Science 301:772–773

A journal article with 2 authors

Cox AL, Siliciano RF (2014) HIV: Not-so-innocent bystanders. Nature 505:492–493

A journal article with 3 authors

Feinstein NW, Allen S, Jenkins E (2013) Outside the pipeline: reimagining science education for nonscientists. Science 340:314–317

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yang J, Zhang Z, Roe SM, et al (2009) Activation of Rho GTPases by DOCK exchange factors is mediated by a nucleotide sensor. Science 325:1398–1402

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lu K (2014) Materials in Energy Conversion, Harvesting, and Storage. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Nyhan J (2016) Computation and the Humanities: Towards an Oral History of Digital Humanities. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ratnadass A, Blanchart É, Lecomte P (2013) Ecological Interactions Within the Biodiversity of Cultivated Systems. In: Hainzelin É (ed) Cultivating Biodiversity to Transform Agriculture. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 141–179

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

Luntz S (2016) Playing Around Doesn’t Make Male Chimpanzees Bad Fathers. 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 (2016) Federal Research: Information on DOE’s Laboratory-Directed Research and Development Program. 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

Piekielek JA (2009) Public wildlands at the U.S.-Mexico border: Where conservation, migration, and border enforcement collide. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Greenhouse L (2008) Justices Broaden Immunity For Officers. New York Times A16

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