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. Tal A. Seeking sustainability: Israel’s evolving water management strategy. Science. 2006;313:1081–1084.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ellis J, Mavromatos NE. Does gravity correct gauge couplings? Nature. 2011;479:E5-6; discussion E6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Morgan MG, Houghton A, Gibbons JH. Science and government. Improving science and technology advice for Congress. Science. 2001;293:1999–2000.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bornhop DJ, Latham JC, Kussrow A, Markov DA, Jones RD, Sørensen HS. Free-solution, label-free molecular interactions studied by back-scattering interferometry. Science. 2007;317:1732–1736.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wilson D. Visual Guide to Financial Markets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Cabras I, Higgins D, Preece D eds. Brewing, Beer and Pubs: A Global Perspective. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gordon KC, Fraser-Miller SJ. Raman Spectroscopy. In: Müllertz A, Perrie Y, Rades T, eds. Analytical Techniques in the Pharmaceutical Sciences. Advances in Delivery Science and Technology. New York, NY: Springer; 2016:139–169.

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. Carpineti A. Proxima Centauri Has A Starspot Cycle Just Like Our Sun. IFLScience. 2016. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/proxima-centauri-has-a-starspot-cycle-just-like-our-sun/. 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. Review of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s Actions To Carry Out the Provisions of the National Cooley’s Anemia Control Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ringberg JE. Daily life at Cerro León, an Early Intermediate period highland settlement in the Moche Valley, Peru. 2012.

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. Dwyer J. ’60s TV, Taxes and a Taste of Trump. New York Times. October 5, 2016:A16.

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