How to format your references using the Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair. 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

1. Brumfiel G. Cosmology: welcome to the real world. Nature. 2003;426:751.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Wibberley CAJ, Shimamoto T. Earthquake slip weakening and asperities explained by thermal pressurization. Nature. 2005;436:689–692.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Behie SW, Zelisko PM, Bidochka MJ. Endophytic insect-parasitic fungi translocate nitrogen directly from insects to plants. Science. 2012;336:1576–1577.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pallé E, Osorio MRZ, Barrena R, Montañés-Rodríguez P, Martín EL. Earth’s transmission spectrum from lunar eclipse observations. Nature. 2009;459:814–816.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Caferra R. Logic for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

1. Prorok BC, Starman L eds. MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Roller K. Corporate Mobility: When and Why Does it Become a Burden? In: Wulfhorst G, Klug S, eds. Sustainable Mobility in Metropolitan Regions: Insights from Interdisciplinary Research for Practice Application. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden; 2016:65–82.

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 Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. DIY Can Be Dangerous – But It’s The Invisible Dust That May Harm You The Most. IFLScience. 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/diy-can-be-dangerous-it-s-invisible-dust-may-harm-you-most/. Accessed October 30, 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Proposed Revisions to Procurement Regulations Covering ADP Equipment and Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gilmore AG. Quantification of oxidative reaction efficiencies for hydroxyl radical oxidized antibiotics. 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

1. Crow K. Making Sure Food Is as Italian As Caruso. New York Times. January 5, 2003:145.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
Abbreviation	Neurorehabil. Neural Repair
ISSN (print)	1545-9683
ISSN (online)	1552-6844
Scope	General Medicine