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

Smaglik, P., 2003. Moving targets. Nature 423, 1021.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tuomisto, H., Ruokolainen, K., 2012. Comment on “Disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients.” Science 335, 1573; author reply 1573.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lavine, M., Frisk, M., Pennisi, E., 2012. Biomaterials. Introduction. Science 338, 899.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ling, J.Q., Li, T., Hu, J.F., Vu, T.H., Chen, H.L., Qiu, X.W., Cherry, A.M., Hoffman, A.R., 2006. CTCF mediates interchromosomal colocalization between Igf2/H19 and Wsb1/Nf1. Science 312, 269–272.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hu, J.C., 2011. Asset Securitization. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809.

An edited book

Eddie Ng, Y.K., 2007. Compressor Instability with Integral Methods. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Min-hang, L., 2012. The Study on Function of Folk Sports, in: Wu, Y. (Ed.), Advanced Technology in Teaching - Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Conference on Teaching and Computational Science (WTCS 2009): Volume 2: Education, Psychology and Computer Science, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–37.

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., 2015. Australian Police Announce Hoverboard Unit For Back To The Future Day [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/police-australia-celebrate-back-future-day-hoverboard-statement/ (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, 2010. Comments From The Copyright Office On GAO-10-428R (GAO-10-707SP), an E-supplement to GAO-10-428R (No. GAO-10-707SP). 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

Smith, J.R., 2010. The evolving profile of alternative tobacco use in California (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Shpigel, B., 2016. Pursuing Gold, Not Platitudes. New York Times SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2003; Tuomisto and Ruokolainen, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Tuomisto and Ruokolainen, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Ling et al., 2006)

About the journal

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

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