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

Clack JA. An early tetrapod from “Romer’s Gap.” Nature. 2002 Jul;418(6893):72–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kappe SHI, Mikolajczak SA. Immunology. Another shot at a malaria vaccine. Science. 2011 Oct;334(6055):460–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petrides M, Cadoret G, Mackey S. Orofacial somatomotor responses in the macaque monkey homologue of Broca’s area. Nature. 2005 Jun;435(7046):1235–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

McDonald BC, de Gouw JA, Gilman JB, Jathar SH, Akherati A, Cappa CD, et al. Volatile chemical products emerging as largest petrochemical source of urban organic emissions. Science. 2018 Feb;359(6377):760–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowe P. Essential Statistics for the Pharmaceutical Sciences. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Zeng D, Gotham I, Komatsu K, Lynch C, Thurmond M, Madigan D, et al., editors. Intelligence and Security Informatics: Biosurveillance: Second NSF Workshop, BioSurveillance 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, May 22, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Yasuda M, Shimoyama T, Kogure J, Yokoyama K, Koshiba T. Packed Homomorphic Encryption Based on Ideal Lattices and Its Application to Biometrics. In: Cuzzocrea A, Kittl C, Simos DE, Weippl E, Xu L, editors. Security Engineering and Intelligence Informatics: CD-ARES 2013 Workshops: MoCrySEn and SeCIHD, Regensburg, Germany, September 2-6, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013; pp 55–74.

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

Evans K. Would You Drink Virtual Lemonade? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Mar [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/would-you-drink-virtual-lemonade/

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. Highway Infrastructure: Preliminary Information on the Timely Completion of Highway Construction Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Greenfield D. Beyond Super Heroes and Talking Animals: Social Justice in Graphic Novels in Education. 2017

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

Verghese A. Worried Sick. New York Times. 2014 Nov;MM13.

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