How to format your references using the Neuropsychobiology citation style

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

Helgen KM. Evolution. The mammal family tree. Science. 2011 Oct;334(6055):458–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morriswood B, Warren G. Cell biology. Stalemate in the Golgi battle. Science. 2013 Sep;341(6153):1465–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petit RJ, Hu FS, Dick CW. Forests of the past: a window to future changes. Science. 2008 Jun;320(5882):1450–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zeff BW, Lanterman DD, McAllister R, Roy R, Kostelich EJ, Lathrop DP. Measuring intense rotation and dissipation in turbulent flows. Nature. 2003 Jan;421(6919):146–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones DW. Economic Theory and the Ancient Mediterranean. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

Mehlhorn H, editor. Nanoparticles in the Fight Against Parasites. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Luderer B, Nollau V, Vetters K. Combinatorial Analysis. In: Nollau V, Vetters K, editors. Mathematical Formulas for Economists. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010; pp 19–20.

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 Neuropsychobiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Why We Mustn’t Assume Smoking And Drinking Only Leads To Certain Cancers [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 May

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. NASA Commercial Crew Program: Schedule Pressure Increases as Contractors Delay Key Events. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vande Voort PS. A phenomenological exploration of faculty experiences using lecture capture systems. 2013

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. Oral Dissents Give Ginsburg A New Voice. New York Times. 2007 May;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Neuropsychobiology
Abbreviation	Neuropsychobiology
ISSN (print)	0302-282X
ISSN (online)	1423-0224
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Biological Psychiatry Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology