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. Carmody J. Celebrating science. Nature. 2001;412:383.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fried SD, Boxer SG. BIOPHYSICS. Response to Comments on “Extreme electric fields power catalysis in the active site of ketosteroid isomerase.” Science. 2015;349:936.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chabre M, Cone R, Saibil H. Biophysics: is rhodopsin dimeric in native retinal rods? Nature. 2003;426:30–1; discussion 31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ruckh TT, Mehta AA, Dubach JM, Clark HA. Polymer-free optode nanosensors for dynamic, reversible, and ratiometric sodium imaging in the physiological range. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. McDonald AG, Magande HL. Introduction to Thermo-Fluids Systems Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Mackey PJ, Grimsey EJ, Jones RT, Brooks GA, editors. Celebrating the Megascale: Proceedings of the Extraction and Processing Division Symposium on Pyrometallurgy in Honor of David G.C. Robertson. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kaski P, Östergård PRJ. Isomorph-Free Exhaustive Generation. In: Östergård PRJ, editor. Classification Algorithms for Codes and Designs. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 105–43.

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. Fang J. Doctors Restore Motion to a Paralyzed Hand. 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. Spectrum Management: Further Consideration of Options to Improve Receiver Performance Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Feb. Report No.: GAO-13-265.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Johnson L. A cross-cultural examination of the needs and behaviors of female caregivers of cancer patients at the end of life: A theoretical elaboration [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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. Johnson G. Science, Lost in a Legal Maze. New York Times. 2015 Mar 24;D3.

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

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