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

Kirschner MW (2006) Obituary: Reinhart Heinrich (1946-2006). Nature 444:700

A journal article with 2 authors

Day J, Beamish J (2007) Low-temperature shear modulus changes in solid 4He and connection to supersolidity. Nature 450:853–856

A journal article with 3 authors

Jones MH, Bewsher D, Brown DS (2013) Imaging of a circumsolar dust ring near the orbit of Venus. Science 342:960–963

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Etcoff NL, Ekman P, Magee JJ, Frank MG (2000) Lie detection and language comprehension. Nature 405:139

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brigo D, Morini M, Pallavicini A (2013) Counterparty Credit Risk, Collateral and Funding. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Varaksin AY (ed) (2007) Turbulent Particle-Laden Gas Flows. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Rigo E (2006) Citizens and Foreigners in the Enlarged Europe. In: Sadurski W, Czarnota A, Krygier M (eds) Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law?: The Impact of EU Enlargement on the Rule of Law, Democracy and Constitutionalism in Post-Communist Legal Orders. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 97–119

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

Davis J (2016) Globally Important Iraqi Marshes Designated As A World Heritage Site. In: IFLScience. 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 (1981) Followup on Actions To Improve Coordination and Utilization of Human Resources Research and Development. 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

Gonzalez SE (2014) Ideal leadership practices in Head Start: Understanding leadership from the perspectives of directors and teachers. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Rothenberg B (2017) Tennis Divided by Wild Cards for Sharapova. New York Times B8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kirschner 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kirschner 2006; Day and Beamish 2007).

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

Two authors: (Day and Beamish 2007)
Three or more authors: (Etcoff et al. 2000)

About the journal

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