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

Roff, D., 2003. Evolution. Evolutionary danger for rainforest species. Science 301, 58–59.

A journal article with 2 authors

Russo, C.J., Passmore, L.A., 2014. Electron microscopy: Ultrastable gold substrates for electron cryomicroscopy. Science 346, 1377–1380.

A journal article with 3 authors

van den Engh, G., Nelson, P., Roach, J., 2000. Numismatic gyrations. Nature 408, 540.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Statnikov, A., Alekseyenko, A.V., Li, Z., Henaff, M., Perez-Perez, G.I., Blaser, M.J., Aliferis, C.F., 2013. Microbiomic signatures of psoriasis: feasibility and methodology comparison. Sci. Rep. 3, 2620.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mather, P.M., Koch, M., 2011. Computer Processing of Remotely-Sensed Images. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Mulser, P., 2010. High Power Laser-Matter Interaction, Springer Tracts in Modern Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ju, S., Kim, Y., Jeong, S., Kim, J.-Y., Lee, N.-H., Jung, H.-K., Han, W.-T., 2016. Gamma-Ray Dose-Rate Dependence on Radiation Resistance of Specialty Optical Fiber with Inner Cladding Layers, in: Ribeiro, P.A., Raposo, M. (Eds.), Photoptics 2014: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology Revised Selected Papers, Springer Proceedings in Physics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 51–65.

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

Fang, J., 2014. New Flying Dino Had Four Wings And Longest Known Feathers [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, 2009. Highway Trust Fund Expenditures on Purposes Other than Construction and Maintenance of Highways and Bridges during Fiscal Years 2004-2008 (No. GAO-09-729R). 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

Wonnacott, C.J., 2017. Ambiguity in Theory and Neutrality in Practice: The Allied Intervention and the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Cowley, S., 2017. New York Attorney General Opens Inquiry on Student Debt. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Roff, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Roff, 2003; Russo and Passmore, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Russo and Passmore, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Statnikov et al., 2013)

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