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:

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

Doncaster, C. P. (2006). Comment on “On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects” III. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5764), 1100; author reply 1100.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weston, C. R., & Davis, R. J. (2001). Signal transduction: signaling specificity- a complex affair. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5526), 2439–2440.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bean, J. L., Kempton, E. M.-R., & Homeier, D. (2010). A ground-based transmission spectrum of the super-Earth exoplanet GJ 1214b. Nature, 468(7324), 669–672.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Alsdorf, D. E., Melack, J. M., Dunne, T., Mertes, L. A., Hess, L. L., & Smith, L. C. (2000). Interferometric radar measurements of water level changes on the Amazon flood plain. Nature, 404(6774), 174–177.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sahinoglu, M. (2016). Cyber-Risk Informatics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Foss, C., Gray, J. W., & Whalen, Z. (Eds.). (2016). Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives. Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Duncan, G. T., Elliot, M., & Salazar-González, J.-J. (2011). Providing and Protecting Microdata. In M. Elliot & J.-J. Salazar-González (Eds.), Statistical Confidentiality: Principles and Practice (pp. 93–122). 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

Davis, J. (2015, October 24). First-Ever Field Observations Of Rare And Elusive Whale. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/first-ever-field-observations-rare-and-elusive-whale/

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. (2001). Space Transportation: Critical Areas NASA Needs to Address in Managing Its Reusable Launch Vehicle Program (GAO-01-826T). 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

Marcheschi, R. L. (2010). Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding individuals with epilepsy by marriage and family therapists and social workers [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2015, November 5). Rebooting Pensions. New York Times, F14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Doncaster, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Doncaster, 2006; Weston & Davis, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Weston & Davis, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Alsdorf et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neuropsychology
Abbreviation	Neuropsychology
ISSN (print)	0894-4105
ISSN (online)	1931-1559
Scope	Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology