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

Carpenter S (2008) Science careers. Finding industry funding. Science 319:1550–1551

A journal article with 2 authors

Fields S, Johnston M (2002) Genomics. A crisis in postgenomic nomenclature. Science 296:671–672

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller CJ, Nichol RC, Batuski DJ (2001) Acoustic oscillations in the early universe and today. Science 292:2302–2303

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Levitsky KL, Toledo-Aral JJ, López-Barneo J, Villadiego J (2013) Direct confocal acquisition of fluorescence from X-gal staining on thick tissue sections. Sci Rep 3:2937

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo L, Liew TH, Yeap BL (2005) Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space-Time Coding. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Martinez-Guerra R (2014) Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Nonlinear Systems: A Differential and Algebraic Viewpoint. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Nielsen JF, Sørensen HB (2008) Organizing for Asymmetric Collaboration. In: Burton RM, Eriksen B, Håkonsson DD, et al (eds) Designing Organizations: 21st Century Approaches. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 83–103

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

Hale T (2016) Elon Musk Has A 'Top Secret Tesla Masterplan” Coming This Week. 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) Global Positioning System: Observations on Quarterly Reports from the Air Force. 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

Boyle CN (2013) Support program for transition age youth: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Crow K (2000) Youngest of Clarks Joins Olympic Family. New York Times D4

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