How to format your references using the The Journal of Comparative Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 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

Smaglik P. 2005. Sizing up the odds. Nature 434:675.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nelson EC, Braun PV. 2007. Chemistry. Enhancing colloids through the surface. Science 318:924–925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma J, Bai L, Wang MD. 2013. Transcription under torsion. Science 340:1580–1583.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Xiao S, Ellwood S, Calis O, Patrick E, Li T, Coleman M, Turner JG. 2001. Broad-spectrum mildew resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana mediated by RPW8. Science 291:118–120.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes P, Davies M. 2009. Sub-Contracting under the JCT 2005 Forms. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Yu PS, Han J, Faloutsos C eds. 2010. Link Mining: Models, Algorithms, and Applications. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Greiner W, Reinhardt J. 2009. Summary: The Feynman Rules of QED. In: Reinhardt J, editor. Quantum Electrodynamics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p 243–253.

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 Journal of Comparative Neurology.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2016. Bikini Island Is Still Very Radioactive Five Decades After Atomic Bomb Tests. IFLScience [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/bikini-island-is-still-very-radioactive-five-decades-after-atomic-bomb-tests/

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. 1980. Survey of the Readiness of Minuteman Missiles. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ireland KS. 2017. The Role Family Communication Patterns Play in Shaping People’s Responses and Perceived Outcomes to Boundary Turbulence via Privacy Breaches in Their Personal Relationships.

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

Barry D. 2011. A Singular Moment, And a Mix of Emotion Stored for a Decade. New York Times:F9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2005; Nelson and Braun, 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Nelson and Braun, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Xiao et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Comparative Neurology
Abbreviation	J. Comp. Neurol.
ISSN (print)	0021-9967
ISSN (online)	1096-9861
Scope	General Neuroscience