How to format your references using the Surgical Neurology International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Surgical Neurology International (SNI). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Ball P. Life’s lessons in design. Nature 2001; 409:413–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yin J, Boyce MC. Materials science: Unique wrinkles as identity tags. Nature 2015; 520:164–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Girvetz EH, Jaeger JAG, Thorne JH. Comment on “Roadless space of the conterminous United States.” Science 2007; 318:1240; author reply 1240.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kahneman D, Krueger AB, Schkade D, Schwarz N, Stone AA. Would you be happier if you were richer? A focusing illusion. Science 2006; 312:1908–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schoukens J, Pintelon R, Rolain Y. Mastering System Identification in 100 Exercises. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2012

An edited book

Martin-Gonzalez A, Uc-Cetina V (eds). Intelligent Computing Systems: First International Symposium, ISICS 2016, Mérida, México, March 16-18, 2016, Proceedings. 1st ed. 2016., Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016

A chapter in an edited book

Charleer S, Klerkx J, Duval E, De Laet T, Verbert K. Creating Effective Learning Analytics Dashboards: Lessons Learnt, in Verbert K , Sharples M , Klobučar T (eds): Adaptive and Adaptable Learning: 11th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2016, Lyon, France, September 13-16, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016, pp.42–56

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 Surgical Neurology International.

Blog post

Andrew E. French Teenager Remains In Remission 12 Years After Stopping HIV Drugs. IFLScience 2015; Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/french-teenager-remains-remission-12-years-after-stopping-hiv-drugs/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. Challenges of Protecting Personal Information in an Expanding Federal Computer Network Environment. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1978

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCorkle WB. Tongue, Nib, Block, Bit: Rhetorical Delivery and Technologies of Writing. 2005;

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

Rashbaum WK, Schwirtz M. Amid Rikers Chaos, Jails Chief Often Left Town. New York Times 2017;A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ^[2].
This sentence cites two references ^[2,4].
This sentence cites four references ^[2,6–8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Surgical Neurology International
Abbreviation	Surg. Neurol. Int.
ISSN (print)	2229-5097
ISSN (online)	2152-7806
Scope	Clinical Neurology Surgery