How to format your references using the The Cerebellum citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Cerebellum. 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

1. Berthoud H-R. Medicine. Why does gastric bypass surgery work? Science. 2013;341:351–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Enquist BJ, Niklas KJ. Global allocation rules for patterns of biomass partitioning in seed plants. Science. 2002;295:1517–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Campbell C, Shea K, Albert R. Network models. Comment on “Control profiles of complex networks.” Science. 2014;346:561.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lang D, Lu MM, Huang L, Engleka KA, Zhang M, Chu EY, et al. Pax3 functions at a nodal point in melanocyte stem cell differentiation. Nature. 2005;433:884–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cortada JW. The Essential Manager. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

1. Nagnibeda E. Non-Equilibrium Reacting Gas Flows: Kinetic Theory of Transport and Relaxation Processes. Kustova E, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Heng NCK, Wescombe PA, Burton JP, Jack RW, Tagg JR. The Diversity of Bacteriocins in Gram-Positive Bacteria. In: Riley MA, Chavan MA, editors. Bacteriocins: Ecology and Evolution. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 45–92.

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 The Cerebellum.

Blog post

1. Hamilton K. How To Know When Holiday Drinking Is Hurting Your Brain [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-to-know-when-holiday-drinking-is-hurting-your-brain/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. NSF’s Academic Facilities Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Apr. Report No.: RCED-95-153R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hawkins SH. Lung CT Radiomics: An Overview of Using Images as Data [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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

1. Greenhouse L. Searching for the Mainstream. New York Times. 2017 Feb 1;A27.

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	The Cerebellum
Abbreviation	Cerebellum
ISSN (print)	1473-4222
ISSN (online)	1473-4230
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology