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. Goldston D. Big data: Data wrangling. Nature. 2008;455:15.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Yamaguchi KE, Ohmoto H. Comment on “Iron isotope constraints on the Archean and Paleoproterozoic ocean redox state.” Science. 2006;311:177; author reply 177.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Goldman SR, Ebright RH, Nickels BE. Direct detection of abortive RNA transcripts in vivo. Science. 2009;324:927–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Stuber GD, Sparta DR, Stamatakis AM, van Leeuwen WA, Hardjoprajitno JE, Cho S, et al. Excitatory transmission from the amygdala to nucleus accumbens facilitates reward seeking. Nature. 2011;475:377–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Frueh BC, Grubaugh AL, Elhai JD, Ford JD. Assessment and Treatment Planning for PTSD. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Dussubieux L, Golitko M, Gratuze B, editors. Recent Advances in Laser Ablation ICP-MS for Archaeology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Baranzini M, Mirante A. The Celebration of Oxbridge Scientists by Italian Economists and Institutions. In: Mirante A, editor. A Compendium of Italian Economists at Oxbridge: Contributions to the Evolution of Economic Thinking. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 193–9.

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. Luntz S. Higher Pay May Help Smokers Quit [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/higher-pay-may-help-smokers-quit/

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. No Child Left Behind Act: States Face Challenges Measuring Academic Growth. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Jul. Report No.: GAO-06-948T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dolan DJ. Structural Evolution of Martin Crater Thaumasia Planum, Mars [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. Almosawa S, Hubbard B. Blast ‘So Vile’ It Could Alter War in Yemen. New York Times. 2016 Oct 10;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	NeuroMetals
ISSN (online)	2058-1645
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