How to format your references using the Neuroscience Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neuroscience Research. 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

Marte, B., 2013. Tumour heterogeneity. Nature 501, 327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miltat, J., Thiaville, A., 2000. MAGNETISM: Magnets Fast and Small. Science 290, 466–467.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, S., Zhang, Y.E., Long, M., 2010. New genes in Drosophila quickly become essential. Science 330, 1682–1685.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tomczyk, S., McIntosh, S.W., Keil, S.L., Judge, P.G., Schad, T., Seeley, D.H., Edmondson, J., 2007. Alfven waves in the solar corona. Science 317, 1192–1196.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bolstad, W.M., Curran, J.M., 2016. Introduction to Bayesian Statistics, Third Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ochi, M., Shino, K., Yasuda, K., Kurosaka, M. (Eds.), 2016. ACL Injury and Its Treatment. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Schoon, S., 2014. Three Olds: Experimental Urban Restructuring with Chinese Characteristics, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in Comparison, in: Altrock, U., Schoon, S. (Eds.), Maturing Megacities: The Pearl River Delta in Progressive Transformation, Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 105–121.

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 Neuroscience Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Astronomers Capture A Rare Wolf-Rayet Star Just Hours After It Dramatically Explodes [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Chemical Assessments: Low Productivity and New Interagency Review Process Limit the Usefulness and Credibility of EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (No. GAO-08-440). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mcfarlane, N., 2010. Information power efficiency tradeoffs in mixed signal CMOS circuits (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Barnes, B., Abrams, R., Kantor, J., 2017. Sharing A Name Of Infamy. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marte, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Marte, 2013; Miltat and Thiaville, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Miltat and Thiaville, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Tomczyk et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neuroscience Research
Abbreviation	Neurosci. Res.
ISSN (print)	0168-0102
Scope	General Medicine General Neuroscience