How to format your references using the Progress in Neurobiology citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Wills, M., 2006. Chemistry. Better asymmetric reactions. Science 311, 619–620.
A journal article with 2 authors
Molloy, J.E., Veigel, C., 2003. Biophysics. Myosin motors walk the walk. Science 300, 2045–2046.
A journal article with 3 authors
Schön, J.H., Kloc, C., Batlogg, B., 2000. Fractional quantum Hall effect in organic molecular semiconductors. Science 288, 2338–2340.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Nimmo, F., Spencer, J.R., Pappalardo, R.T., Mullen, M.E., 2007. Shear heating as the origin of the plumes and heat flux on Enceladus. Nature 447, 289–291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Perlmutter, D.D., Rothstein, R.L., 2010. The Challenge of Climate Change. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.
An edited book
Cockett, N.E., Kole, C. (Eds.), 2009. Genome Mapping and Genomics in Domestic Animals, Genome Mapping and Genomics in Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Moser, M., Patterson*, C., 2009. The Role of Thrombin in Vascular Development, in: Maragoudakis, M.E., Tsopanoglou, N.E. (Eds.), Thrombin: Physiology and Disease. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 81–92.

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 Progress in Neurobiology.

Blog post
Andrew, E., 2015. Strange Tale Of Fish Eye Evolution Shows How New Species Could Be Born [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/strange-tale-fish-eye-evolution-shows-how-new-species-could-be-born/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2012. Commuter Rail: Potential Impacts and Cost Estimates for the Cancelled Hudson River Tunnel Project (No. GAO-12-344). 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
Newfang, D.A., 2017. A Historical Assessment of Asbestos Exposure, Abatement Methods and Containment Efficacy During Asbestos Containing Material Removal Activities at a Large Federal Facility (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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
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In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wills, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Molloy and Veigel, 2003; Wills, 2006).

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

  • Two authors: (Molloy and Veigel, 2003)
  • Three or more authors: (Nimmo et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleProgress in Neurobiology
AbbreviationProg. Neurobiol.
ISSN (print)0301-0082
ScopeGeneral Neuroscience

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