How to format your references using the NeuroImage: Clinical citation style

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

Fitzgerald, G., 2010. Drug development needs a new brand of science. Nature 468, 869.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seeber, L., Armbruster, J.G., 2000. Earthquakes as beacons of stress change. Nature 407, 69–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, X., Clark, A.C., Chan, M.H.W., 2007. Probable heat capacity signature of the supersolid transition. Nature 449, 1025–1028.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lin, S., Dikler, S., Blincoe, W.D., Ferguson, R.D., Sheridan, R.P., Peng, Z., Conway, D.V., Zawatzky, K., Wang, H., Cernak, T., Davies, I.W., DiRocco, D.A., Sheng, H., Welch, C.J., Dreher, S.D., 2018. Mapping the dark space of chemical reactions with extended nanomole synthesis and MALDI-TOF MS. Science 361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kitajima, M., 2016. Memory and Action Selection in Human-Machine Interaction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Baklanov, A., Alexander, M., Sokhi, R. (Eds.), 2011. Integrated Systems of Meso-Meteorological and Chemical Transport Models. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Richter, M.M., Weber, R.O., 2013. Case Representations, in: Weber, R.O. (Ed.), Case-Based Reasoning: A Textbook. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 87–111.

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 NeuroImage: Clinical.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Using HIV To Cut And Paste The Human Genome [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2000. National Airspace System: Problems Plaguing the Wide Area Augmentation System and FAA’s Actions to Address Them (No. T-RCED-00-229). 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

Wilkins, D., 2015. The Value of the Semantic Differential to the Art Educator (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Yablonsky, L., 2011. Upping the Ante. New York Times M298.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Fitzgerald, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Fitzgerald, 2010; Seeber and Armbruster, 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Seeber and Armbruster, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	NeuroImage: Clinical
Abbreviation	NeuroImage Clin.
ISSN (print)	2213-1582
Scope	Clinical Neurology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Cognitive Neuroscience Neurology