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

Mattick, J.S., 2011. Genome-sequencing anniversary. The genomic foundation is shifting. Science 331, 874.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liemert, A., Kienle, A., 2013. Exact and efficient solution of the radiative transport equation for the semi-infinite medium. Sci. Rep. 3, 2018.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hollingsworth, R.G., Armstrong, J.W., Campbell, E., 2002. Caffeine as a repellent for slugs and snails. Nature 417, 915–916.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kosman, D., Mizutani, C.M., Lemons, D., Cox, W.G., McGinnis, W., Bier, E., 2004. Multiplex detection of RNA expression in Drosophila embryos. Science 305, 846.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boberski, V., 2010. Community Banking Strategies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Trauth, E.M., Howcroft, D., Butler, T., Fitzgerald, B., DeGross, J.I. (Eds.), 2006. Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems: IFIP TC8 WG8.2 International Working Conference, July 12–15, 2006, Limerick, Ireland, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Sun, G., Zhao, C., Shi, Y., 2008. Epigenetic Control of Neural Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Specification, in: Shi, Y., Clegg, D.O. (Eds.), Stem Cell Research and Therapeutics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 69–82.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. SpaceX May Start Launches Again As Soon As November After Rocket Explosion [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, 1995. School Finance: Trends in U.S. Education Spending (No. HEHS-95-235). 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

Brown, M.H., 2014. An Examination of Executive Function, Stress, and Adolescent Attachment to Caregivers in a Social Neuroscience Model Using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD) (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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., 2002. World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: Panel To Study Reforms. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mattick, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Liemert and Kienle, 2013; Mattick, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Liemert and Kienle, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kosman et al., 2004)

About the journal

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