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

McCabe H (2000) Reshuffle lifts French synchrotron hopes. Nature 404:533

A journal article with 2 authors

Adams DL, Horton JC (2002) Shadows cast by retinal blood vessels mapped in primary visual cortex. Science 298:572–576

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee S, Bluemle MJ, Bates FS (2010) Discovery of a Frank-Kasper sigma phase in sphere-forming block copolymer melts. Science 330:349–353

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bergelson J, Kreitman M, Stahl EA, Tian D (2001) Evolutionary dynamics of plant R-genes. Science 292:2281–2285

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg SM (2010) Running an Effective Investor Relations Department. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Sammes N (2006) Fuel Cell Technology: Reaching Towards Commercialization. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Cimini M, Coen CS, Sangiorgi D (2010) Functions as Processes: Termination and the $\lambda\mu\widetilde{\mu}$ -Calculus. In: Wirsing M, Hofmann M, Rauschmayer A (eds) Trustworthly Global Computing: 5th International Symposium, TGC 2010, Munich, Germany, February 24-26, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 73–86

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

Hamilton K (2016) What Can A 1.7-Million-Year-Old Hominid Fossil Teach Us About Cancer? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-can-a-1-point-7-million-year-old-hominid-fossil-teach-us-about-cancer/. 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 (1991) Global Positioning System: Production Should Be Limited Until Receiver Reliability Problems Are Resolved. 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

Chan BK (2017) Hyperboloid-Parameterized Description of Diffusive Superconducting-Magnetic Hybrid Systems. 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

Borden S (2012) A Photo Finish Too Close to Call, Even by Camera. New York Times A1

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

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