How to format your references using the Neuropathological Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neuropathological Diseases (NPD). 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

Jimenez-Sanchez, G., Developing a Platform for Genomic Medicine in Mexico, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 300, no. 5617, pp. 295–96, April 11, 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wiersma, D. S. and Cavalieri, S., Light Emission: A Temperature-Tunable Random Laser, Nature, vol. 414, no. 6865, pp. 708–9, December 13, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wood, Z. A., Poole, L. B. and Karplus, P. A., Peroxiredoxin Evolution and the Regulation of Hydrogen Peroxide Signaling, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 300, no. 5619, pp. 650–53, April 25, 2003.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Nakayama, H., Shiraki, A., Hirayama, R., Masuda, N., Shimobaba, T. and Ito, T., Three-Dimensional Volume Containing Multiple Two-Dimensional Information Patterns, Scientific Reports, vol. 3, p. 1931, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zadora, G., Martyna, A., Ramos, D. and Aitken, C., Statistical Analysis in Forensic Science, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2013.

An edited book

Milkov, N. and Peckhaus, V. Eds., The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, X, 332 p. 2 illus, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Boudjadar, A., Dingel, J., Madzar, B. and Kim, J. H., Compositional Predictability Analysis of Mixed Critical Real Time Systems, in Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems: 4th International Workshop, FTSCS 2015, Paris, France, November 6-7, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, C. Artho and P. C. Ölveczky, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 69–84, 2016.

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 Neuropathological Diseases.

Blog post

Andrew, E., How To Make Edible Water Bottles, IFLScience, May 9, 2014.

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, High Speed Ground Transportation: Financing Issues, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, T-RCED-93-14, Mar. 4, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bryant, D., A Good Story Changes Everything, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2012.

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

LINDA GREENHOUSE; Karen W. Arenson contributed reporting from New York for this article, U.S. WINS RULING OVER RECRUITING AT UNIVERSITIES, New York Times, March 7, 2006.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jimenez-Sanchez, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Jimenez-Sanchez, 2003; Wiersma et al., 2001).

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

Two authors: (Wiersma et al., 2001)
Three or more authors: (Nakayama et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neuropathological Diseases
ISSN (print)	2160-2468
ISSN (online)	2160-2476
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