How to format your references using the Neuroimmunomodulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neuroimmunomodulation. 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	Download the output style file
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

Huntington HP. Arctic science: The local perspective. Nature. 2011 Oct;478(7368):182–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miyamichi K, Luo L. Neuroscience. Brain wiring by presorting axons. Science. 2009 Jul;325(5940):544–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo ZX, Crompton AW, Sun AL. A new mammaliaform from the early Jurassic and evolution of mammalian characteristics. Science. 2001 May;292(5521):1535–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Brebner K, Wong TP, Liu L, Liu Y, Campsall P, Gray S, et al. Nucleus accumbens long-term depression and the expression of behavioral sensitization. Science. 2005 Nov;310(5752):1340–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaisford S, Saunders M. Essentials of Pharmaceutical Preformulation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Deng X, Graham FC, editors. Internet and Network Economics: Third International Workshop, WINE 2007, San Diego, CA, USA, December 12-14, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Carolan E, McLoone SC, Farrell R. A Predictive Model for Minimising Power Usage in Radio Access Networks. In: Agüero R, Zinner T, García-Lozano M, Wenning B-L, Timm-Giel A, editors. Mobile Networks and Management: 7th International Conference, MONAMI 2015, Santander, Spain, September 16-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 55–67.

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 Neuroimmunomodulation.

Blog post

Carpineti A. The Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Nov [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-leonid-meteor-shower-peaks-tonight/

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. Office of Federal Student Aid: Better Strategic and Human Capital Planning Would Help Sustain Management Progress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bai J. Development and validation of the acculturative stress scale for Chinese College Students in the United States (ASSCS). 2012

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

GISELA WILLIAMS; JOANNA KAKISSIS; ANDREW FERREN; SETH SHERWOOD; INGRID K. WILLIAMS; KATIE PARLA; SAMANTHA MURRAY GREENWAY; SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY; SETH SHERWOOD;, Whitlock S. 15 Cities, Wrapped in a Bow, for Under $100. New York Times. 2011 Apr;TR3.

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	Neuroimmunomodulation
Abbreviation	Neuroimmunomodulation
ISSN (print)	1021-7401
ISSN (online)	1423-0216
Scope	Endocrinology Immunology Endocrine and Autonomic Systems Neurology