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]

Stöhr K. Vaccinate before the next pandemic? Nature 2010;465:161.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Stamm LM, Goldberg MB. Microbiology. Establishing the secretion hierarchy. Science 2011;331:1147–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rhode SC, Pawlowski M, Tollrian R. The impact of ultraviolet radiation on the vertical distribution of zooplankton of the genus Daphnia. Nature 2001;412:69–72.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Fecko CJ, Eaves JD, Loparo JJ, Tokmakoff A, Geissler PL. Ultrafast hydrogen-bond dynamics in the infrared spectroscopy of water. Science 2003;301:1698–702.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Banks RE, Sharp JM, Doss SD, Vanderford DA. Exotic Small Mammal Care and Husbandry. Ames, Iowa, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Huq SMI. The Soils of Bangladesh. vol. 1. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ubelaker DH, Montaperto KM. Biomechanical and Remodeling Factors in the Interpretation of Fractures in Juveniles. In: Ross AH, Abel SM, editors. The Juvenile Skeleton in Forensic Abuse Investigations, Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2011, p. 33–48.

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]

Fang J. Pandas’ Bamboo-Only Diet Should Kill Them. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pandas-bamboo-only-diet-should-kill-them/ (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. Army Airlift: Need To Use Air Lines of Communications for Essential Items. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Anderson CW. Breaking journalism down: Work, authority, and networking local news, 1997–2009. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, 2009.

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]

Brantley B. Remembering Mama, as She Forgets. New York Times 2017:C1.

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