How to format your references using the Neurology, Psychiatry and Brain Research citation style

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

Baltimore, D. (2012). Retrospective. Renato Dulbecco (1914-2012). Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6076), 1587.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bartel, B., & Matsuda, S. P. T. (2003). Plant biology. Seeing red. Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5605), 352–353.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kwak, K., Cho, K., & Kim, S. (2013). Stable bending performance of flexible organic light-emitting diodes using IZO anodes. Scientific Reports, 3, 2787.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kohl, S. W., Weiner, L., Schwartsburd, L., Konstantinovski, L., Shimon, L. J. W., Ben-David, Y., Iron, M. A., & Milstein, D. (2009). Consecutive thermal H2 and light-induced O2 evolution from water promoted by a metal complex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5923), 74–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iacus, S. M. (2011). Option Pricing and Estimation of Financial Models with R. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bockstael, N. E. (2007). Environmental and Resource Valuation with Revealed Preferences: A Theoretical Guide to Empirical Models (K. E. McConnell, Ed.; Vol. 7). Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Seitz, F., & Krügel, M. (2009). Inverse Model Approach for vertical Load Deformations in Consideration of Crustal Inhomogeneities. In H. Drewes (Ed.), Geodetic Reference Frames: IAG Symposium Munich, Germany, 9-14 October 2006 (pp. 23–29). Springer.

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, Psychiatry and Brain Research.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, November 24). 14 Science-Backed Answers To Your Biggest Questions About Wine. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Significant Risks Remain to Department of Education’s Student Financial Aid Systems (T-AIMD-98-302). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ladd, R. J. (2014). A Study of Alternative Education Programs in the State of Missouri [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood University.

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

Mueller, B., Baker, A. L., & Southall, A. (2017, June 6). Attempted Murder Charge in Bronx Shooting of Boy on His 5th Birthday. New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Baltimore, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Baltimore, 2012; Bartel & Matsuda, 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bartel & Matsuda, 2003)
Three authors: (Kwak et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Kohl et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurology, Psychiatry and Brain Research
Abbreviation	Neurol. Psychiatry Brain Res.
ISSN (print)	0941-9500
Scope	Clinical Neurology Psychiatry and Mental health General Neuroscience