How to format your references using the Neuropharmacology citation style

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

Sjöberg, B.-M., 2010. Biochemistry. A never-ending story. Science 329, 1475–1476.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fagiolini, M., Hensch, T.K., 2000. Inhibitory threshold for critical-period activation in primary visual cortex. Nature 404, 183–186.

A journal article with 3 authors

Madden, M.E.E., Bodnar, R.J., Rimstidt, J.D., 2004. Jarosite as an indicator of water-limited chemical weathering on Mars. Nature 431, 821–823.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Déjardin, J., Rappailles, A., Cuvier, O., Grimaud, C., Decoville, M., Locker, D., Cavalli, G., 2005. Recruitment of Drosophila Polycomb group proteins to chromatin by DSP1. Nature 434, 533–538.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kroese, D.P., Taimre, T., Botev, Z.I., Rubinstein, R.Y., 2007. Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method: Solutions Manual to Accompany, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Jungck, P., 2011. packetC Programming. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Böttcher, A., Widom, H., 2007. From Toeplitz Eigenvalues through Green’s Kernels to Higher-order Wirtinger-Sobolev Inequalities, in: Dritschel, M.A. (Ed.), The Extended Field of Operator Theory, Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 73–87.

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 Neuropharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. How To Feed a Two-Headed Snake [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, 1988. Aviation Services: Automation and Consolidation of Flight Service Stations (No. RCED-88-77). 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

Mackay, E.A., 2009. Title I funding allocation of reserve funds after increased standards for academic proficiency under the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (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

Saslow, L., 2007. Design Teams Hired in Nassau Coliseum Project. New York Times LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sjöberg, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Fagiolini and Hensch, 2000; Sjöberg, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Fagiolini and Hensch, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Déjardin et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neuropharmacology
Abbreviation	Neuropharmacology
ISSN (print)	0028-3908
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Pharmacology