How to format your references using the Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska. 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

[1]

Garnero EJ. Geophysics. A new paradigm for Earth’s core-mantle boundary. Science 2004;304:834–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Selosse M-A, Rousset F. Evolution. The plant-fungal marketplace. Science 2011;333:828–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Guiteras R, Levinsohn J, Mobarak AM. Sanitation subsidies. Encouraging sanitation investment in the developing world: a cluster-randomized trial. Science 2015;348:903–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Weber T, Giessen H, Weckenbrock M, Urbasch G, Staudte A, Spielberger L, et al. Correlated electron emission in multiphoton double ionization. Nature 2000;405:658–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bass F. Guide to the Census. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Bellatreche L, Mohania MK, editors. Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery: 15th International Conference, DaWaK 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, August 26-29, 2013. Proceedings. vol. 8057. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gurrib I. The Relationship Between the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index and the Corruption Perceptions Index in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Major Economies. In: Ramady MA, editor. The Political Economy of Wasta: Use and Abuse of Social Capital Networking, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 47–61.

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 Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. 10 Things Every Child With Autism Wishes You Knew. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/10-things-every-child-with-autism-wishes-you-knew/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Space Shuttle: Incomplete Data and Funding Approach Increase Cost Risk for Upgrade Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Purdy DW. Identifying Shallow Foundation Failure Modes and Mechanisms Using Surveillance of a Transparent Granular Soil Surrogate. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University, 2017.

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

[1]

Cooper M, Pogrebin R. Foam, Armor and Nights at the Museum: Protecting Florida’s Art From Irma. New York Times 2017:A14.

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	Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska
Abbreviation	Neurol. Neurochir. Pol.
ISSN (print)	0028-3843
Scope	Clinical Neurology Surgery