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. McKay R. Paleoclimate. Did Antarctica initiate the ice age cycles? Science. 2014;346:812–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Blackburn TM, Duncan RP. Determinants of establishment success in introduced birds. Nature. 2001;414:195–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Stone JV, Hunkin NM, Hornby A. Predicting spontaneous recovery of memory. Nature. 2001;414:167–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Stein A, Weber G, Wahl MC, Jahn R. Helical extension of the neuronal SNARE complex into the membrane. Nature. 2009;460:525–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Belsey C. A Future for Criticism. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Das S. Microbial Biotechnology- A Laboratory Manual for Bacterial Systems. Dash HR, editor. New Delhi: Springer India; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Roberge J. Critique and the Deliberate Professional: Framing the New and Enhanced Role of Intermediaries in Digital Culture. In: Trede F, McEwen C, editors. Educating the Deliberate Professional: Preparing for future practices. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 47–58.

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. Astronomers Reveal Most Detailed Catalog of Milky Way Stars [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-reveal-most-detailed-catalog-milky-way-stars/

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. Space Research: Content and Coordination of Space Science and Technology Strategy Need to Be More Robust. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Jul. Report No.: GAO-11-722.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Corbin-Staton AP. Contexts of parental involvement: An interpretive synthesis of qualitative literature using the meta-interpretation method [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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. Walsh MW. No Smoke, No Mirrors: The Dutch Pension Plan. New York Times. 2014 Oct 12;BU1.

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)