How to format your references using the Neuropsychology citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Nimis, P. L. (2001). A tale from Bioutopia. Nature, 413(6851), 21.
A journal article with 2 authors
Neuman, Y., & Cohen, Y. (2014). A vectorial semantics approach to personality assessment. Scientific Reports, 4, 4761.
A journal article with 3 authors
Weber, W., Riesen, S., & Siegmann, H. C. (2001). Magnetization precession by hot spin injection. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5506), 1015–1018.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Blinov, B. B., Moehring, D. L., Duan, L.-M., & Monroe, C. (2004). Observation of entanglement between a single trapped atom and a single photon. Nature, 428(6979), 153–157.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Bannwarth, H. (2005). Liquid Ring Vacuum Pumps, Compressors and Systems. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
An edited book
Snidaro, L., García, J., Llinas, J., & Blasch, E. (Eds.). (2016). Context-Enhanced Information Fusion: Boosting Real-World Performance with Domain Knowledge. Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Choi, B., Kim, J., & Song, T.-H. (2014). Retracted: Influence of Scattering Pattern on the Insulation Performance of VIP Filler Materials. In A. Li, Y. Zhu, & Y. Li (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning: Volume 1: Indoor and Outdoor Environment (pp. 33–40). Springer.

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 Neuropsychology.

Blog post
Andrew, E. (2013, December 27). Skywatching Events Not To Miss In 2014. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/skywatching-events-not-miss-2014/

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. (1996). Education and Employment Issue Area: Active Assignments (AA-96-13(2)). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Bartaula, B. (2017). Stand Level Growth and Survival Equations for Cutover Sites Loblolly Pine Plantations in the Mid-Gulf Region of Southern United States [Doctoral dissertation]. Mississippi State University.

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
Wines, M. (2017, September 13). Democrats Join Those Criticizing Voting Panel. New York Times, A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nimis, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Neuman & Cohen, 2014; Nimis, 2001).

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

  • Two authors: (Neuman & Cohen, 2014)
  • Three authors: (Weber et al., 2001)
  • 6 or more authors: (Blinov et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal titleNeuropsychology
AbbreviationNeuropsychology
ISSN (print)0894-4105
ISSN (online)1931-1559
ScopeNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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