How to format your references using the Neurotoxicity Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurotoxicity 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Aldhous P (2000) Protests force primate farm to close. Nature 404:215

A journal article with 2 authors

Köhler H-R, Triebskorn R (2013) Wildlife ecotoxicology of pesticides: can we track effects to the population level and beyond? Science 341:759–765

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang XF, Chen TT, Zheng B (2014) Structure of local interactions in complex financial dynamics. Sci Rep 4:5321

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Vörösmarty CJ, Osuna VR, Koehler DA, et al (2018) Scientifically assess impacts of sustainable investments. Science 359:523–525

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Park S, Guille-Escuret G (2017) Sociobiology vs Socioecology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Raza H (ed) (2012) Graphene Nanoelectronics: Metrology, Synthesis, Properties and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Schaffer S, Kearney E, Voelpel SC, Koester R (2012) Managing demographic change and diversity in organizations: how feedback from coworkers moderates the relationship between age and innovative work behavior. In: Beham B, Straub C, Schwalbach J (eds) Managing Diversity in Organizations. Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp 45–68

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 Neurotoxicity Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Geometry Allows Stem Cells To Organize, Differentiate Naturally. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/geometry-allows-stem-cells-organize-differentiate-naturally/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1998) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: State Department Needs To Make Fundamental Improvements To Its Year 2000 Program. 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

Perez RW (2017) Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block? The Impact of Prior Military Service on Hiring Managers’ Perceptions of Warmth, Competence, and Hirability. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Koblin J (2017) Tech Firms Make Push Toward TV. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aldhous 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Aldhous 2000; Köhler and Triebskorn 2013).

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

Two authors: (Köhler and Triebskorn 2013)
Three or more authors: (Vörösmarty et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurotoxicity Research
Abbreviation	Neurotox. Res.
ISSN (print)	1029-8428
ISSN (online)	1476-3524
Scope	General Neuroscience Toxicology