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

Berger F. Plant sciences. Imprinting--a green variation. Science. 2004 Jan;303(5657):483–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mackelprang R, Rubin EM. Paleontology. New tricks with old bones. Science. 2008 Jul;321(5886):211–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hines PJ, Jasny BR, Mervis J. Adding a T to the three R’s. Education & technology. Introduction. Science. 2009 Jan;323(5910):53.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kraus S, Hofmann K-H, Menten KM, Schertl D, Weigelt G, Wyrowski F, et al. A hot compact dust disk around a massive young stellar object. Nature. 2010 Jul;466(7304):339–42.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korhonen J, Savolainen T, Soininen J. Deploying IPv6 in 3GPP Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Pippan R, Gumbsch P, editors. Multiscale Modelling of Plasticity and Fracture by Means of Dislocation Mechanics. Vienna: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Gander H-H. Sprache und Heimat Zu Arnold Stadlers Heidegger-Lektüre. In: Breeur R, Melle U, editors. Life, Subjectivity & Art: Essays in Honor of Rudolf Bernet. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012; pp 101–22.

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

O`Callaghan J. NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Captures The First Stunning Views Of Jupiter’s Poles [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Sep [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-juno-spacecraft-captures-first-stunning-views-of-jupiters-poles/

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. Higher Education: Federal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Programs and Related Trends. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mullican CD. Multiple Intelligences in the Text: Examining the Presence of Multiple Intelligences Tasks in the Annotated Teacher’s Editions of Four High School United States History Textbooks. 2012

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

Johnson G. Unearthing Prehistoric Tumors, and Debate. New York Times. 2010 Dec;D1.

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