How to format your references using the Neuromuscular Disorders citation style

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

[1]

Brook EJ. Atmospheric science. Tiny bubbles tell all. Science 2005;310:1285–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Yanega GM, Rubega MA. Feeding mechanisms: Hummingbird jaw bends to aid insect capture. Nature 2004;428:615.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Deller AT, Bailes M, Tingay SJ. Implications of a VLBI distance to the double pulsar J0737-3039A/B. Science 2009;323:1327–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bijl PK, Schouten S, Sluijs A, Reichart G-J, Zachos JC, Brinkhuis H. Early Palaeogene temperature evolution of the southwest Pacific Ocean. Nature 2009;461:776–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Modarres M, Amiri M, Jackson C. Probabilistic Physics of Failure Approach to Reliability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Seiffert U, Jain LC, Schweizer P, editors. Bioinformatics Using Computational Intelligence Paradigms. vol. 176. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Osipov G, Smirnov I, Tikhomirov I, Sochenkov I, Shelmanov A, Shvets A. Information Retrieval for R&D support. In: Paltoglou G, Loizides F, Hansen P, editors. Professional Search in the Modern World: COST Action IC1002 on Multilingual and Multifaceted Interactive Information Access, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 45–69.

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 Neuromuscular Disorders.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. The Life-Changing Love Of One Of The 20th Century’s Greatest Physicists. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/life-changing-love-one-20th-century-s-greatest-physicists/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Higher Education: Better Management of Federal Grant and Loan Forgiveness Programs for Teachers Needed to Improve Participant Outcomes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Freedman R. Assessing the functional recovery and connectivity potential of restored estuaries in southern California using juvenile predator fish movements. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

Crow K. A Mystery in Harlem. New York Times 2002:141.

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	Neuromuscular Disorders
Abbreviation	Neuromuscul. Disord.
ISSN (print)	0960-8966
Scope	Genetics(clinical) Clinical Neurology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Neurology