How to format your references using the NeuroMetals citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for NeuroMetals. 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. Werner R. The focus on bibliometrics makes papers less useful. Nature. 2015;517:245.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Paczolt KA, Jones AG. Post-copulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in the evolution of male pregnancy. Nature. 2010;464:401–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lambert JB, Gurusamy-Thangavelu SA, Ma K. The silicate-mediated formose reaction: bottom-up synthesis of sugar silicates. Science. 2010;327:984–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Béguin P, Nagashima K, Gonoi T, Shibasaki T, Takahashi K, Kashima Y, et al. Regulation of Ca2+ channel expression at the cell surface by the small G-protein kir/Gem. Nature. 2001;411:701–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Carroll N. Minerva’s Night Out. Oxford: A John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

1. Yuizono T, Ogata H, Hoppe U, Vassileva J, editors. Collaboration and Technology: 22nd International Conference, CRIWG 2016, Kanazawa, Japan, September 14-16, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Dixon JC. Aridic Soils, Patterned Ground, and Desert Pavements. In: Parsons AJ, Abrahams AD, editors. Geomorphology of Desert Environments. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 101–22.

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 NeuroMetals.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Scientists Announce Bold Plan To Sequence The Genome Of Every Living Species. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. DHS Research and Development: Science and Technology Directorate’s Test and Evaluation and Reorganization Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Nov. Report No.: GAO-12-239T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Andrus AK. Cellular and Proteomic Characterization of the Innate Immune Response in Wasting Bat Stars (Patiria miniata) [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Vecsey G. Hostesses as Recruiters? How Far Is Too Far? New York Times. 2009 Dec 15;B11.

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	NeuroMetals
ISSN (online)	2058-1645
Scope