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

Higgins, C. F. (2007). Multiple molecular mechanisms for multidrug resistance transporters. Nature, 446(7137), 749–757.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aβmann, M., & Bayer, M. (2013). Compressive adaptive computational ghost imaging. Scientific reports, 3, 1545.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ishii, H., Sakurai, Y., & Maruyama, T. (2014). Effect of soccer shoe upper on ball behaviour in curve kicks. Scientific reports, 4, 6067.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kishida, H., Matsuzaki, H., Okamoto, H., Manabe, T., Yamashita, M., Taguchi, Y., & Tokura, Y. (2000). Gigantic optical nonlinearity in one-dimensional Mott-Hubbard insulators. Nature, 405(6789), 929–932.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maillard, P. (2013). Competitive Quality Strategies. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Poirier, E. J. (2016). Solutions Manual To accompany Transport Phenomena in Materials Processing. (D. R. Poirier, Ed.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Cramp, D. S. (2008). The Trial Judge. In M. F. Kraushar (Ed.), Risk Prevention in Ophthalmology (pp. 37–39). New York, NY: Springer.

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

Davis, J. (2015, May 27). Scientists Create Biodegradable Computer Chips. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/biodegradable-computer-chips-step-closer/. 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. (1975). Implementation of the Older Americans Comprehensive Services Amendments of 1973 (No. MWD-75-97). 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

Kraka, E. K. (2012). Assessment of herbicides for control of non-native species: Italian ryegrass (Lolium perenne spp. multiflorum ), tropical spiderwort (Commelina benghalensis), and tropical soda apple (Solanum viarum) (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, August 26). Campus Kickoffs: Don’t Think Too Hard. New York Times, p. B17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Higgins 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Aβmann and Bayer 2013; Higgins 2007).

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

Two authors: (Aβmann and Bayer 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kishida et al. 2000)

About the journal

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