How to format your references using the The Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience citation style

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

1. Brandenburg A. Cosmology. Magnetic mysteries. Science. 2001;292:2440–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sobel HW, Suzuki Y. Obituary: Yoji Totsuka (1942-2008). Nature. 2008;454:954.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sun L, Wang J, Bonaccurso E. Conductivity of individual particles measured by a microscopic four-point-probe method. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1991.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hassey R, Swain EJ, Hammer NI, Venkataraman D, Barnes MD. Probing the chiroptical response of a single molecule. Science. 2006;314:1437–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Prazeres DMF. Plasmid Biopharmaceuticals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Sanchez E. Industrial Applications of Evolutionary Algorithms. Squillero G, Tonda A, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Moorman AV, Harrison CJ. Cytogenetics. In: Advani AS, Lazarus HM, editors. Adult Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia: Biology and Treatment. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2011. p. 61–75.

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 Mathematical Neuroscience.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. ‘Feathering’ Descent System Deployed Early in Fatal Virgin Galactic Crash. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. VA Student Financial Aid: Opportunity to Reduce Overlap in Approving Education and Training Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Oct. Report No.: HEHS-96-22.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Conway AH. Signs and symptoms of moral injury in female vietnam veterans: A qualitative examination of the nvvrs [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2014.

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. Protess B. G.O.P.’s Paths to Unraveling Wall Street Rules From Obama Era. New York Times. 2017 Jan 31;A19.

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 Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience
Abbreviation	J. Math. Neurosci.
ISSN (online)	2190-8567
Scope	Neuroscience (miscellaneous)