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

Chisholm, S.W., 2000. Stirring times in the Southern Ocean. Nature 407, 685–687.

A journal article with 2 authors

Budd, G.E., Telford, M.J., 2009. The origin and evolution of arthropods. Nature 457, 812–817.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kennedy, M., Mrofka, D., von der Borch, C., 2008. Snowball Earth termination by destabilization of equatorial permafrost methane clathrate. Nature 453, 642–645.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Feinerman, O., Veiga, J., Dorfman, J.R., Germain, R.N., Altan-Bonnet, G., 2008. Variability and robustness in T cell activation from regulated heterogeneity in protein levels. Science 321, 1081–1084.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chandra, S., 2016. Energy, Entropy and Engines. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Lee, S., Cho, H., Yoon, K.-J., Lee, J. (Eds.), 2013. Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12: Volume 2 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference IAS-12, held June 26-29, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Barbato, M., 2011. Use of Time-Variant Spectral Characteristics of Nonstationary Random Processes in the First-Passage Problem for Earthquake Engineering Applications, in: Papadrakakis, M., Stefanou, G., Papadopoulos, V. (Eds.), Computational Methods in Stochastic Dynamics, Computational Methods in Applied Sciences. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 67–88.

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. Third Branch Added To Present-Day European Family Tree [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/third-branch-added-present-day-european-family-tree/ (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, 2001. Army Training: Improvements Are Needed in 5-Ton Truck Driver Training and Supervision (No. GAO-01-436). 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

Tajer, S.A., 2010. Topics in MIMO networks (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Stevenson, A., de la MERCED, M.J., 2017. With Crowding in U.S. Market, Activist Investors Look to Europe. 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 (Chisholm, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Budd and Telford, 2009; Chisholm, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Budd and Telford, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Feinerman et al., 2008)

About the journal

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