How to format your references using the Neurological Sciences citation style

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

Rieppel O (2009) Evolution. How did the turtle get its shell? Science 325:154–155

A journal article with 2 authors

Archer D, Martin P (2001) Ocean circulation. Thin walls tell the tale. Science 294:2108–2109

A journal article with 3 authors

Grafton RQ, Kompas T, Hilborn RW (2007) Economics of overexploitation revisited. Science 318:1601

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Shi Y, Sawada J-I, Sui G, et al (2003) Coordinated histone modifications mediated by a CtBP co-repressor complex. Nature 422:735–738

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knudsen S (2005) Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gentili G (2015) The Median Nerve: Motor Conduction Studies. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Salles L, Swacek C, Lacayo RM, et al (2016) Numerical Round Robin for Prediction of Dissipation in Lap Joints. In: Kerschen G (ed) Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 53–64

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 Neurological Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) FDA Approves New Drug To Treat Advanced Breast Cancer. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2013) Intelligent Transportation Systems: Vehicle-to-Vehicle Technologies Expected to Offer Safety Benefits, but a Variety of Deployment Challenges Exist. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Randall R (2009) Department of Children and Family Services workers’ knowledge of childhood obesity and services for obese children. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Hodgman J (2016) Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM26

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	Neurological Sciences
Abbreviation	Neurol. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1590-1874
ISSN (online)	1590-3478
Scope	General Medicine Dermatology Clinical Neurology Psychiatry and Mental health