How to format your references using the Neuropeptides citation style

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

Dickson, D., 2000. Unesco backs “science for debt” plan. Nature 404, 911.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chyba, C.F., Hand, K.P., 2001. Planetary science. Life without photosynthesis. Science 292, 2026–2027.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dai, X., Chen, A., Bai, Z., 2014. Integrative investigation on breast cancer in ER, PR and HER2-defined subgroups using mRNA and miRNA expression profiling. Sci. Rep. 4, 6566.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fliessbach, K., Weber, B., Trautner, P., Dohmen, T., Sunde, U., Elger, C.E., Falk, A., 2007. Social comparison affects reward-related brain activity in the human ventral striatum. Science 318, 1305–1308.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ji, Z.-G., 2017. Hydrodynamics and Water Quality. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bloem, R., Arbel, E. (Eds.), 2016. Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing: 12th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2016, Haifa, Israel, November 14-17, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Caillat, C., Perrakis, A., 2012. Cdt1 and Geminin in DNA Replication Initiation, in: MacNeill, S. (Ed.), The Eukaryotic Replisome: A Guide to Protein Structure and Function, Subcellular Biochemistry. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 71–87.

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 Neuropeptides.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. NASA Wants To Send Astronauts Near The Moon For A Year Before Going To Mars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2003. No Child Left Behind Act: More Information Would Help States Determine Which Teachers Are Highly Qualified (No. GAO-03-631). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Slaughter, R.A., 2017. Tradition and Progress: California Fire Technology Directors Beliefs and Values (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Supreme Court Turns Down Cases on Religious Separation. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dickson, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Chyba and Hand, 2001; Dickson, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Chyba and Hand, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Fliessbach et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neuropeptides
Abbreviation	Neuropeptides
ISSN (print)	0143-4179
Scope	Endocrinology General Medicine Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Endocrine and Autonomic Systems Neurology