How to format your references using the Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. 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

Thomas GH. Evolution: An avian explosion. Nature. 2015 Oct;526(7574):516–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Quental TB, Marshall CR. How the Red Queen drives terrestrial mammals to extinction. Science. 2013 Jul;341(6143):290–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Micol-Ponce R, Aguilera V, Ponce MR. A genetic screen for suppressors of a hypomorphic allele of Arabidopsis ARGONAUTE1. Sci Rep. 2014 Jul;4:5533.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cherian PT, Wu X, Maddox MM, Singh AP, Lee RE, Hurdle JG. Chemical modulation of the biological activity of reutericyclin: a membrane-active antibiotic from Lactobacillus reuteri. Sci Rep. 2014 Apr;4:4721.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Halpin DW, Senior BA. Financial Management and Accounting Fundamentals for Construction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Jain LC, Behera HS, Mandal JK, Mohapatra DP, editors. Computational Intelligence in Data Mining - Volume 1: Proceedings of the International Conference on CIDM, 20-21 December 2014. New Delhi: Springer India; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Širca S, Horvat M. Transformations of Functions and Signals. In: Horvat M, editor. Computational Methods for Physicists: Compendium for Students. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012; pp 159–205.

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 Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.

Blog post

Hamilton K. New Study: Salmonella Thrives In Salad Bags [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Nov [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-study-salmonella-thrives-in-salad-bags/

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. Senate Bill 543: The Job Training Partnership Act Youth Employment Amendments of 1989. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lee MY-L. The intellectual origins of Lin Yutang’s cultural internationalism, 1928–1938. 2009

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

Wagner J. Not for the First Time, Harvey Apologizes. New York Times. 2017 May;B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
Abbreviation	Stereotact. Funct. Neurosurg.
ISSN (print)	1011-6125
ISSN (online)	1423-0372
Scope	Clinical Neurology Surgery