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

Christianson DW. Chemistry. Roots of biosynthetic diversity. Science. 2007 Apr;316(5821):60–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goo L, Pierson TC. Dengue virus: Bumps in the road to therapeutic antibodies. Nature. 2015 Aug;524(7565):295–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oganov AR, Brodholt JP, Price GD. The elastic constants of MgSiO3 perovskite at pressures and temperatures of the Earth’s mantle. Nature. 2001 Jun;411(6840):934–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zurbuchen TH, Raines JM, Gloeckler G, Krimigis SM, Slavin JA, Koehn PL, et al. MESSENGER observations of the composition of Mercury’s ionized exosphere and plasma environment. Science. 2008 Jul;321(5885):90–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cliteur P. The Secular Outlook. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Mavroudis C, Backer CL, editors. Atlas of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. 1st ed. 2016. London: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Chakravarty SR. An Axiomatic Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement via Fuzzy Sets. In: Lemmi A, Betti G, editors. Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006; pp 49–72.

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

Andrew E. Giant Extinct Volcano Discovered In Pacific Ocean [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Sep

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. Air Traffic Control: Timely Completion of FAA’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System Software Is at Risk. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bearden A. Exploring the Congruency between Mission and Practice in a Pre-K-12, Midwestern, Christian School. 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

MacFARQUHAR N. Putin Tightens His Grip on Russia’s Parliament With an Election Rout. New York Times. 2016 Sep;A8.

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