How to format your references using the Neuroinformatics citation style

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

Rabeharisoa, V. (2011). Genome-sequencing anniversary. Socializing genetic diseases. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6020), 1026–1027.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor, R., & Forge, A. (2005). Developmental biology. Life after deaf for hair cells? Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5712), 1056–1058.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilman, R. T., Nuismer, S. L., & Jhwueng, D.-C. (2012). Coevolution in multidimensional trait space favours escape from parasites and pathogens. Nature, 483(7389), 328–330.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Beck, R. D., Maroni, P., Papageorgopoulos, D. C., Dang, T. T., Schmid, M. P., & Rizzo, T. R. (2003). Vibrational mode-specific reaction of methane on a nickel surface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5642), 98–100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carrega, P. (2010). Geographical Information and Climatology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Henkel, M., Pleimling, M., & Sanctuary, R. (Eds.). (2007). Ageing and the Glass Transition (Vol. 716). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Macario, A. J. L., Conway de Macario, E., & Cappello, F. (2013). Other Genetic Chaperonopathies. In E. Conway de Macario & F. Cappello (Eds.), The Chaperonopathies: Diseases with Defective Molecular Chaperones (pp. 63–69). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Neuroinformatics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, January 13). Massive Die-Offs of Fish, Birds, and Marine Invertebrates Becoming More Frequent. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/massive-die-offs-fish-birds-and-marine-invertebrates-becoming-more-frequent/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2005). Aviation Security: Flight and Cabin Crew Member Security Training Strengthened, but Better Planning and Internal Controls Needed (No. GAO-05-781). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wolfe, C. J. (2012). Dimensions of Purchasing Social Responsibility in Sustainable Supply Chain Organizations (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2015, September 18). Opening Night for ‘Arsenic and Old Lace.’ New York Times, p. C28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rabeharisoa 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Rabeharisoa 2011; Taylor and Forge 2005).

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

Two authors: (Taylor and Forge 2005)
Three or more authors: (Beck et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neuroinformatics
Abbreviation	Neuroinformatics
ISSN (print)	1539-2791
ISSN (online)	1559-0089
Scope	Information Systems Software General Neuroscience