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

Laming, J.M., 2010. Astronomy. More supernova surprises. Science 329, 1604–1605.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pitaevskii, L., Stringari, S., 2002. Ultracold matter. The quest for superfluidity in Fermi gases. Science 298, 2144–2146.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lavrov, A.N., Komiya, S., Ando, Y., 2002. Magnetic shape-memory effects in a crystal. Nature 418, 385–386.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chang, S., Kwon, N., Weon, B.M., Kim, J., Rhee, C.K., Choi, H.S., Kohmura, Y., Yamamoto, M., Ishikawa, T., Je, J.H., 2013. Tracking X-ray microscopy for alveolar dynamics in live intact mice. Sci. Rep. 3, 1304.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robson Wright, M., 2005. An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Sabath, F., Mokole, E.L. (Eds.), 2014. Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics 10. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Sanchez, A.R., 2010. The Technical Support Group, in: Pepper, J., Andres, C., Anglin, S., Beckner, M., Buckingham, E., Cornell, G., Gennick, J., Hassell, J., Lowman, M., Moodie, M., Parkes, D., Pohlmann, F., Pundick, D., Renow-Clarke, B., Shakeshaft, D., Wade, M., Welsh, T., Markham, J., Stence, K. (Eds.), Technical Support Essentials: Advice You Can Use to Succeed in Technical Support. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp. 67–93.

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., 2015. FDA-Approved Treatment Could Be Effective Against Drug-Resistant Brain Tumors In Children [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. Highways and Environment: Transportation Agencies Are Acting to Involve Others in Planning and Environmental Decisions (No. GAO-08-512R). 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

Dusenberry, W., 2017. Integrating depth psychology in adolescent court-mandated treatment facilities: Increasing treatment efficacy and client engagement (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2013. Cities Urge Public Pension Funds to Divest From Gun Makers. 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 (Laming, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Laming, 2010; Pitaevskii and Stringari, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Pitaevskii and Stringari, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Chang et al., 2013)

About the journal

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