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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Gershon D. Malaria research tools up for the future. Nature. 2002 Oct 3;419(6906):4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tsubouchi T, Roeder GS. A synaptonemal complex protein promotes homology-independent centromere coupling. Science. 2005 May 6;308(5723):870–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Behie SW, Zelisko PM, Bidochka MJ. Endophytic insect-parasitic fungi translocate nitrogen directly from insects to plants. Science. 2012 Jun 22;336(6088):1576–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lang D, Lu MM, Huang L, Engleka KA, Zhang M, Chu EY, et al. Pax3 functions at a nodal point in melanocyte stem cell differentiation. Nature. 2005 Feb 24;433(7028):884–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster MC. HPLC. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Bringas PG, Hameurlain A, Quirchmayr G, editors. Database and Expert Systems Applications: 21th International Conference, DEXA 2010, Bilbao, Spain, August 30 - September 3, 2010, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. XXVI, 504 p. 190 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 6262).

A chapter in an edited book

Neubecker KE. Race/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Body Mass Index (BMI) and the Resulting Spread of Obesity and “Adult-Onset” Diabetes Epidemics Among Adolescents. In: Ferry RJ Jr, editor. Management of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2011. p. 71–98.

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

Evans K. The 50 Smartest Public High Schools In America. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Study of United States Government Wind Tunnels. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1954 Apr. Report No.: B-114825.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alvarez C. Support groups for children of depressed parents: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

Kleinfield NR, Fitzsimmons EG. Friends and Work Colleagues Remembering Lives Lost in the Metro-North Crash. New York Times. 2015 Feb 5;A22.

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