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:

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

Yarborough, M., 2014. Openness in science is key to keeping public trust. Nature 515, 313.

A journal article with 2 authors

Makse, H.A., Kurchan, J., 2002. Testing the thermodynamic approach to granular matter with a numerical model of a decisive experiment. Nature 415, 614–617.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lucia, U., Ponzetto, A., Deisboeck, T.S., 2014. A thermo-physical analysis of the proton pump vacuolar-ATPase: the constructal approach. Sci. Rep. 4, 6763.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bodin, K., Ellmerich, S., Kahan, M.C., Tennent, G.A., Loesch, A., Gilbertson, J.A., Hutchinson, W.L., Mangione, P.P., Gallimore, J.R., Millar, D.J., Minogue, S., Dhillon, A.P., Taylor, G.W., Bradwell, A.R., Petrie, A., Gillmore, J.D., Bellotti, V., Botto, M., Hawkins, P.N., Pepys, M.B., 2010. Antibodies to human serum amyloid P component eliminate visceral amyloid deposits. Nature 468, 93–97.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kowalick, T.M., 2004. Fatal Exit. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Simeone, B., Pukelsheim, F. (Eds.), 2006. Mathematics and Democracy: Recent Advances in Voting Systems and Collective Choice, Studies in Choice and Welfare. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bal, C., Fleck, N., 2016. Connected Stadium: A Pillar for Football Clubs’ Marketing Development?, in: Plewa, C., Conduit, J. (Eds.), Making a Difference Through Marketing: A Quest for Diverse Perspectives. Springer, Singapore, pp. 43–58.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Watch A Bald Eagle Snatch A Baby Osprey From Its Nest [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1996. Information Technology: Streamlining FHA’s Single Family Housing Operations (No. AIMD-97-4). 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

Shellhouse, K., 2017. The Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary Deposit in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Rockwell, J., 2017. He Put Brooklyn on the Map. New York Times AR8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yarborough, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Makse and Kurchan, 2002; Yarborough, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Makse and Kurchan, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Bodin et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Progress in Neurobiology
Abbreviation	Prog. Neurobiol.
ISSN (print)	0301-0082
Scope	General Neuroscience