How to format your references using the Neurosignals citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurosignals. 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

Sovacool BK. Energy. Deploying off-grid technology to eradicate energy poverty. Science. 2012 Oct;338(6103):47–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Efremov RG, Sazanov LA. Structure of the membrane domain of respiratory complex I. Nature. 2011 Aug;476(7361):414–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang APP, Pigli YZ, Rice PA. Structure of the LexA-DNA complex and implications for SOS box measurement. Nature. 2010 Aug;466(7308):883–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chanda B, Asamoah OK, Blunck R, Roux B, Bezanilla F. Gating charge displacement in voltage-gated ion channels involves limited transmembrane movement. Nature. 2005 Aug;436(7052):852–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews GG. Cellular Physiology of Nerve and Muscle. Malden, MA USA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.; 2002.

An edited book

Catthoor F. Ultra-Low Energy Domain-Specific Instruction-Set Processors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Mayer GS, Vrscay ER, Lauzon ML, Goodyear BG, Mitchell JR. Self-similarity of Images in the Fourier Domain, with Applications to MRI. In: Campilho A, Kamel M, editors. Image Analysis and Recognition: 5th International Conference, ICIAR 2008, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 25-27, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008; pp 43–52.

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 Neurosignals.

Blog post

Carpineti A. New Metamaterial Transmits Light With No Energy Loss [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Oct [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-metamaterial-transmits-light-no-energy-loss/

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. Railroad Safety: Engineer Work Shift Length and Schedule Variability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Coppock JE. Optical and Magnetic Measurements of a Levitated, Gyroscopically Stabilized Graphene Nanoplatelet. 2017

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

Paulson M. ‘Moulin Rouge’ Musical Will Debut in Boston. New York Times. 2017 Nov;C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurosignals
Abbreviation	Neurosignals
ISSN (print)	1424-862X
ISSN (online)	1424-8638
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Developmental Neuroscience Neurology