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

Hobert O. Gene regulation by transcription factors and microRNAs. Science 2008;319:1785–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sharp MD, Pogliano K. Role of cell-specific SpoIIIE assembly in polarity of DNA transfer. Science 2002;295:137–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Poulton SW, Fralick PW, Canfield DE. The transition to a sulphidic ocean approximately 1.84 billion years ago. Nature 2004;431:173–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Li CK, Séguin FH, Frenje JA, Rosenberg M, Petrasso RD, Amendt PA, et al. Charged-particle probing of x-ray-driven inertial-fusion implosions. Science 2010;327:1231–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zinkin J. Rebuilding Trust in Banks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Gore AC, editor. Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: From Basic Research to Clinical Practice. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Akgün T, Gevrekci M. Accelerating Super-Resolution Reconstruction Using GPU by CUDA. In: Nagamalai D, Kumar A, Annamalai A, editors. Advances in Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology (CCSEIT-2013), KTO Karatay University, June 7-9, 2013, Konya,Turkey - Volume 1. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing; 2013. page 47–58.

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

Taub B. Huge Variation In Rattlesnake Venom Reveals Intense Arms Race Against Squirrels [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/huge-variation-rattlesnake-venom-reveals-intense-arms-race-against-squirrels/

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. Comments on Proposed F.P.M.R. Amendment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sundell M. From fine art to fashion: Man Ray’s ambivalent avant-garde. 2009;

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

Oestreich JR. Where Youth Meets Musical Beauty. New York Times2017;C5.

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