How to format your references using the Neurology citation style

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

Mayr E. Happy birthday: 80 years of watching the evolutionary scenery. Science. 2004;305:46–47.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacoby CA, Frazer TK. Eutrophication: time to adjust expectations. Science. 2009;324:723–724; author reply 724-5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fujisawa K, Wrana JL, Culotti JG. The slit receptor EVA-1 coactivates a SAX-3/Robo mediated guidance signal in C. elegans. Science. 2007;317:1934–1938.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sturm A, Amino R, van de Sand C, et al. Manipulation of host hepatocytes by the malaria parasite for delivery into liver sinusoids. Science. 2006;313:1287–1290.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stocker AA. Analog VLSI Circuits for the Perception of Visual Motion. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Deng W, editor. Future Control and Automation: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Future Control and Automation (ICFCA 2012) - Volume 1. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Guerraoui R, Ruppert E. Linearizability Is Not Always a Safety Property. In: Noubir G, Raynal M, editors. Networked Systems: Second International Conference, NETYS 2014, Marrakech, Morocco, May 15-17, 2014 Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 57–69.

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.

Blog post

Andrew E. Computing, Uncertainty … Quantum Leaps and Bounds of 2014 [online]. IFLScience IFLScience; 2015. Accessed at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/computing-uncertainty-quantum-leaps-and-bounds-2014/. 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

Government Accountability Office. U.S. Citizens Studying Medicine Abroad. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984 Dec. Report No.: 125770.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peacock C. Design science research toward designing/prototyping a repeatable model for testing location management (LM) algorithms for wireless networking [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2012.

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

Kishkovsky S. Organizers Of Art Show Convicted In Moscow. New York Times. 2010.:C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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
Abbreviation	Neurology
ISSN (print)	0028-3878
ISSN (online)	1526-632X
Scope	Clinical Neurology