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

Zaanen J. High-temperature superconductivity: electron mirages in an iron salt. Nature. 2014 Nov;515(7526):205–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fishman L, Saunders A. Centromere-associated female meiotic drive entails male fitness costs in monkeyflowers. Science. 2008 Dec;322(5907):1559–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ammerman AJ, Pinhasi R, Bánffy E. Comment on “Ancient DNA from the first European farmers in 7500-year-old Neolithic sites.” Science. 2006 Jun;312(5782):1875; author reply 1875.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kumar R, Kumari B, Srivastava A, Kumar M. NRfamPred: a proteome-scale two level method for prediction of nuclear receptor proteins and their sub-families. Sci Rep. 2014 Oct;4:6810.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Uriev NB. Technology of Dispersed Systems and Materials. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2016.

An edited book

Azzopardi G, Petkov N, editors. Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 16th International Conference, CAIP 2015, Valletta, Malta, September 2-4, 2015 Proceedings, Part I. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Korver B, Tillema H. Feedback Provision in Mentoring Conversations. In: Tillema H, Westhuizen GJ van der, Smith K, editors. Mentoring for Learning: “Climbing the Mountain.” Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2015; pp 99–115.

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. New Analysis Suggests Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Destabilizing [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Nov

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. Human Capital: Agencies Should More Fully Evaluate the Costs and Benefits of Executive Training. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chapman TW. Evaluating the δ13C Value of n-Alkanes as a Recorder of Atmospheric Chemistry. 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

Koblin J, Grynbaum MM. Kelly May Get Morning Slot, Shaking Up ‘Today.’ New York Times. 2017 Jan;B4.

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

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