How to format your references using the Neuropathology citation style

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

Normile D. Lost at sea. Science. 2014 May 30;344(6187):963–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kurtz J, Franz K. Innate defence: evidence for memory in invertebrate immunity. Nature. 2003 Sep 4;425(6953):37–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miles MA, Yeo M, Mauricio IL. Genetics. Leishmania exploit sex. Science. 2009 Apr 10;324(5924):187–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee LTL, He J, Wang B, Ma Y, Wong KY, Li Q, et al. Few-layer MoSe₂ possessing high catalytic activity towards iodide/tri-iodide redox shuttles. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb 14;4:4063.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahmad K. Sourcebook of ATM and IP Internetworking. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Agüero R, Zinner T, García-Lozano M, Wenning BL, Timm-Giel A, editors. Mobile Networks and Management: 7th International Conference, MONAMI 2015, Santander, Spain, September 16-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XI, 294 p. 127 illus. in color. (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; vol. 158).

A chapter in an edited book

Joshee R, Sihra K. Shakti as a Liberatory and Educative Force for Hindu Women. In: Gross Z, Davies L, Diab AK, editors. Gender, Religion and Education in a Chaotic Postmodern World. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 73–82.

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 Neuropathology.

Blog post

Fang J. An X-Ray Outburst By Our Own Black Hole Shatters Existing Records. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. James Webb Space Telescope: Project Meeting Commitments but Current Technical, Cost, and Schedule Challenges Could Affect Continued Progress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Jan. Report No.: GAO-14-72.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Carrillo J. Parenting education curriculum for single adolescent mothers in foster care [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Poniewozik J. The Ghost in the Machine May Be Your Soul. New York Times. 2016 Oct 20;C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Neuropathology
Abbreviation	Neuropathology
ISSN (print)	0919-6544
ISSN (online)	1440-1789
Scope	General Medicine Clinical Neurology Pathology and Forensic Medicine