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

Sifers RN. Medicine. Clearing conformational disease. Science. 2010 Jul;329(5988):154–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tang S, Guo A. Choice behavior of Drosophila facing contradictory visual cues. Science. 2001 Nov;294(5546):1543–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Behrens TEJ, Hunt LT, Rushworth MFS. The computation of social behavior. Science. 2009 May;324(5931):1160–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Datta SR, Vasconcelos ML, Ruta V, Luo S, Wong A, Demir E, et al. The Drosophila pheromone cVA activates a sexually dimorphic neural circuit. Nature. 2008 Mar;452(7186):473–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bottomley GE. Channel Equalization for Wireless Communications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Privat M. Pro iOS Persistence: Using Core Data. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Olsen N, Hulot G, Sabaka TJ. Sources of the Geomagnetic Field and the Modern Data That EnableTheir Investigation. In: Freeden W, Nashed MZ, Sonar T, editors. Handbook of Geomathematics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010; pp 105–24.

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. More Bright Galaxies Discovered In The Early Universe [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jun

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. DOE Loan Programs: DOE Has Made More Than $30 Billion in Loans and Guarantees and Needs to Fully Develop Its Loan Monitoring Function. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yasa SR. Visual Basic Simulation of H2S Removal from Natural Gas at Downhole in an Extraction Well. 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

Oestreich JR. Venice by Way of New York. New York Times. 2016 Sep;AR46.

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