How to format your references using the Neurotrauma Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurotrauma Reports (NEUR). 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

Radman M. Fidelity and infidelity. Nature 2001;413(6852):115.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boltasseva A, Atwater HA. Materials science. Low-loss plasmonic metamaterials. Science 2011;331(6015):290–291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baer B, Armitage SAO, Boomsma JJ. Sperm storage induces an immunity cost in ants. Nature 2006;441(7095):872–875.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li ZY, Young NP, Di Vece M, et al. Three-dimensional atomic-scale structure of size-selected gold nanoclusters. Nature 2008;451(7174):46–48.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson JB, Johannesson R. Understanding Information Transmission. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2005.

An edited book

Pihlström S. Kantian Antitheodicy: Philosophical and Literary Varieties. (Kivistö S. ed). Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Kawabe J. Riesz Type Integral Representations for Comonotonically Additive Functionals. In: Nonlinear Mathematics for Uncertainty and Its Applications. (Li S, Wang X, Okazaki Y, et al. eds). Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2011; pp. 35–42.

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 Neurotrauma Reports.

Blog post

Taub B. Learning Music Gives Kids Extra Brain Connections. IFLScience; 2016. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Transportation Infrastructure: Advantages and Disadvantages of Wrap-Up Insurance for Large Construction Projects. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Haffner I. Experimental Investigation of Temperature Dependency in Transmission Characteristics of Liquid Crystals by Spectroscopy. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA; 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

Kishkovsky S. Russian Novelist Scoffs at Post-Soviet Leaders. New York Times 2002;114.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Neurotrauma Reports
ISSN (online)	2689-288X
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