How to format your references using the Neuropsychology Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neuropsychology Review. 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.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
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
Lea, D. W. (2002). Paleoclimate. The glacial tropical Pacific--not just a west side story. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5579), 202–203.
A journal article with 2 authors
Kellner, A. W. A., & Campos, D. de A. (2002). The function of the cranial crest and jaws of a unique pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5580), 389–392.
A journal article with 3 authors
Laubach, M., Wessberg, J., & Nicolelis, M. A. (2000). Cortical ensemble activity increasingly predicts behaviour outcomes during learning of a motor task. Nature, 405(6786), 567–571.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Clayden, J., Lund, A., Vallverdú, L., & Helliwell, M. (2004). Ultra-remote stereocontrol by conformational communication of information along a carbon chain. Nature, 431(7011), 966–971.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Hadjsaïd, N., & Sabonnadière, J.-C. (2013). Power Systems and Restructuring. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Konstantinides, S. V. (Ed.). (2007). Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.
A chapter in an edited book
Li, X.-G., Niculescu, S.-I., & Çela, A. (2015). Invariance Property: A Unique Idea for Complete Stability Analysis. In S.-I. Niculescu & A. Cela (Eds.), Analytic Curve Frequency-Sweeping Stability Tests for Systems with Commensurate Delays (pp. 47–52). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Review.

Blog post
Fang, J. (2014, August 23). Hydrogen-Generating Water Splitter Runs on AAA Battery. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/hydrogen-generating-water-splitter-runs-aaa-battery/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2008). Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Performance Management and Strengthen Oversight of the High-Cost Program (No. GAO-08-633). Washington, DC: 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
Eldridge, Z. (2017). The Empowerment of a Forgotten Population (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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
Eggers, D. (2017, October 16). Chimanada Ngozi Adichie. New York Times, p. M2156.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lea 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kellner and Campos 2002; Lea 2002).

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

  • Two authors: (Kellner and Campos 2002)
  • Three or more authors: (Clayden et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal titleNeuropsychology Review
AbbreviationNeuropsychol. Rev.
ISSN (print)1040-7308
ISSN (online)1573-6660
ScopeNeuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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