How to format your references using the Neurology India citation style

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

Lake JA. Disappearing act. Nature 2007;446:983.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wicherts JM, Scholten AZ. Comment on “Poverty impedes cognitive function.” Science 2013;342:1169.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weeks AR, Marec F, Breeuwer JA. A mite species that consists entirely of haploid females. Science 2001;292:2479–82.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mitton-Fry RM, Anderson EM, Hughes TR, Lundblad V, Wuttke DS. Conserved structure for single-stranded telomeric DNA recognition. Science 2002;296:145–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bma. Everyday Medical Ethics and Law. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Deeg K-H. Doppler Sonography in Infancy and Childhood. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Blease RE, Smith CS. Blast Trauma. In: Bone LB, Mamczak CN, editors. Front Line Extremity and Orthopaedic Surgery: A Practical Guide. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. page 31–42.

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 India.

Blog post

Fang J. Stunning New Ruby Seadragon Discovered [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/stunning-new-ruby-seadragon-discovered/

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. Environmental Protection: Rocket Tests in Mississippi to Be Heavily Restricted. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tian CY. Studies of equilibrium conditions in housing markets. 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

Hubbard B, Searcey D, Casey N. As Exxon Head, Tillerson Put Company’s Needs Over U.S. Interests. New York Times2016;A1.

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 India
Abbreviation	Neurol. India
ISSN (print)	0028-3886
ISSN (online)	1998-4022
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology