How to format your references using the Neurology and Therapy citation style

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

1. Chyba CF. Atmospheric science. Countering the early faint Sun. Science. 2010;328:1238–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Griffin AS, West SA. Kin discrimination and the benefit of helping in cooperatively breeding vertebrates. Science. 2003;302:634–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zhang J, Lu H, Huang L. Calciphytoliths (calcium oxalate crystals) analysis for the identification of decayed tea plants (Camellia sinensis L.). Sci Rep. 2014;4:6703.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Patriarchi T, Cho JR, Merten K, Howe MW, Marley A, Xiong W-H, et al. Ultrafast neuronal imaging of dopamine dynamics with designed genetically encoded sensors. Science. 2018;360.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Dauphiné A. Fractal Geography. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2012.

An edited book

1. Herrmann G, Pearson MJ, Lenz A, Bremner P, Spiers A, Leonards U, editors. Social Robotics: 5th International Conference, ICSR 2013, Bristol, UK, October 27-29, 2013, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Abufadel A, Yezzi T, Schafer RW. 4D Segmentation of Cardiac Data Using Active Surfaces with Spatiotemporal Shape Priors. In: Bunke H, Kandel A, Last M, editors. Applied Pattern Recognition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 77–100.

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 Neurology and Therapy.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Watch Live Feed As Asteroid Approaches Closer Than The Moon. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Aerospace Plane Technology: Research and Development Efforts in Japan and Australia. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Oct. Report No.: NSIAD-92-5.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Equihua D. The relationship of mental health and family factors to parental involvement in their children’s education among Latina mothers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Wertheimer LK. The Middle East Conflict on Campus. New York Times. 2016 Aug 3;ED10.

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	Neurology and Therapy
Abbreviation	Neurol. Ther.
ISSN (print)	2193-8253
ISSN (online)	2193-6536
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology