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. Anderson DL. Geophysics. Top-down tectonics? Science. 2001;293:2016–2018.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Chopra HD, Wuttig M. Non-Joulian magnetostriction. Nature. 2015;521:340–343.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Jiang J-W, Zhuang X, Rabczuk T. Orientation dependent thermal conductance in single-layer MoS2. Sci. Rep. 2013;3:2209.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Spencer SL, Gaudet S, Albeck JG, Burke JM, Sorger PK. Non-genetic origins of cell-to-cell variability in TRAIL-induced apoptosis. Nature. 2009;459:428–432.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Johansen GA, Jackson P. Radioisotope Gauges for Industrial Process Measurements. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Bornstein BH, Miller MK eds. Advances in Psychology and Law: Volume 2. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hanson CE. High Speed Train Noise Effects on Wildlife and Domestic Livestock. In: Schulte-Werning B, Thompson D, Gautier P-E, et al., eds. Noise and Vibration Mitigation for Rail Transportation Systems: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Railway Noise, Munich, Germany, 4 - 8 September 2007. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008:26–32.

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. Vanity And Predatory Academic Publishers Are Corrupting The Pursuit Of Knowledge. IFLScience. 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/vanity-and-predatory-academic-publishers-are-corrupting-pursuit-knowledge/. 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. Information Technology: OMB and Department of Homeland Security Investment Reviews. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ponder S. Parent information nights: An elementary school principal’s search to increase parent input and affect the learning-at-home environment. 2010.

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. Cooper M. German Home For Alan Gilbert. New York Times. June 23, 2017:C4.

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

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