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]

Mann A. Cosmology: The hunting of the dark. Nature 2011;471:433–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Li D, Caffrey M. Renaturing membrane proteins in the lipid cubic phase, a nanoporous membrane mimetic. Sci Rep 2014;4:5806.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fehr E, Bernhard H, Rockenbach B. Egalitarianism in young children. Nature 2008;454:1079–83.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Tang Z, Zhang Z, Wang Y, Glotzer SC, Kotov NA. Self-assembly of CdTe nanocrystals into free-floating sheets. Science 2006;314:274–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Loriaux DL. A Biographical History of Endocrinology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Hu X, Xia Y, Zhang Y, Zhao D, editors. Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2015: 12th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2015, Jeju, South Korea, October 15-18, 2015, Proceedings. vol. 9377. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lopes N, Ribeiro B. Support Vector Machines (SVMs). In: Ribeiro B, editor. Machine Learning for Adaptive Many-Core Machines - A Practical Approach, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 85–105.

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]

Taub B. Researchers Take Steps Towards Developing A “Universal” Vaccine To Cure All Cancers. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-take-steps-towards-developing-universal-vaccine-cure-all-cancers/ (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. International Space Station (ISS) - Ongoing Assessments for Life Extension Appear to be Supported. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Zamora L. Azura digital health: Scheduling application and prescription service for women’s health. Doctoral dissertation. 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]

Sisario B. The Weeknd Remains at No. 1 on the Charts. New York Times 2017:C3.

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