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

Garman EF. Developments in x-ray crystallographic structure determination of biological macromolecules. Science. 2014 Mar;343(6175):1102–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Theise ND, Wilmut I. Cell plasticity: flexible arrangement. Nature. 2003 Sep;425(6953):21.

A journal article with 3 authors

McGinty RK, Henrici RC, Tan S. Crystal structure of the PRC1 ubiquitylation module bound to the nucleosome. Nature. 2014 Oct;514(7524):591–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Petricevic L, Domig KJ, Nierscher FJ, Sandhofer MJ, Fidesser M, Krondorfer I, et al. Characterisation of the vaginal Lactobacillus microbiota associated with preterm delivery. Sci Rep. 2014 May;4:5136.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hannam J. What Everyone Needs to Know about Tax. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Madani K, Dourado Correia A, Rosa A, Filipe J, editors. Computational Intelligence: Revised and Selected Papers of the International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2010, Valencia, Spain, October 2010. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Job G, Rüffler R. Influence of Temperature and Pressure on Transformations. In: Rüffler R, editor. Physical Chemistry from a Different Angle: Introducing Chemical Equilibrium, Kinetics and Electrochemistry by Numerous Experiments. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016; pp 129–51.

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

Carpineti A. New Gene-Editing Technique Can Change A Single Base In DNA [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Apr

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. Competition in the Airline Computerized Reservation System Industry. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thomack A. Random Harmonic Polynomials. 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

Cooper M. A Case That Reverberates In Inkblot-Like Districts. New York Times. 2017 Jun;A15.

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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