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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Lloyd, D.R., 2003. Comment on “Salt-pump mechanism for contaminant intrusion into coastal aquifers.” Science 302, 784; author reply 784.

A journal article with 2 authors

Linkenhoker, B.A., Knudsen, E.I., 2002. Incremental training increases the plasticity of the auditory space map in adult barn owls. Nature 419, 293–296.

A journal article with 3 authors

Okabe, Y., Sano, T., Nagata, S., 2009. Regulation of the innate immune response by threonine-phosphatase of Eyes absent. Nature 460, 520–524.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Raj, L., Ide, T., Gurkar, A.U., Foley, M., Schenone, M., Li, X., Tolliday, N.J., Golub, T.R., Carr, S.A., Shamji, A.F., Stern, A.M., Mandinova, A., Schreiber, S.L., Lee, S.W., 2018. Retraction Note: Selective killing of cancer cells by a small molecule targeting the stress response to ROS. Nature 561, 420.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker, W.L., Marn, M.V., Zawada, C.C., 2010. The Price Advantage. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kovács, L., Fuhr, N., Meghini, C. (Eds.), 2007. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 11th European Conference, ECDL 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 16-21, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Liesche, J., Schulz, A., 2013. Symplasmic Transport in Phloem Loading and Unloading, in: Sokołowska, K., Sowiński, P. (Eds.), Symplasmic Transport in Vascular Plants. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 133–163.

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

Hale, T., 2016. What’s Actually Inside A “Black Box” Flight Recorder? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/whats-actually-inside-a-black-box-flight-recorder/ (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, 1997. FCC: The Local Multipoint Distribution Service (No. OGC-98-3). 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

Jujhavarapu, S., 2017. Real Time Driver Drowsiness Detection (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

(nyt), S.K., 2001. World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: President Signs Land Reform Law. New York Times A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lloyd, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Linkenhoker and Knudsen, 2002; Lloyd, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Linkenhoker and Knudsen, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Raj et al., 2018)

About the journal

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