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

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

Kolber ZS (2006) Ecology. Getting a better picture of the ocean’s nitrogen budget. Science 312:1479–1480.

A journal article with 2 authors

Soukoulis CM, Wegener M (2010) Materials science. Optical metamaterials--more bulky and less lossy. Science 330:1633–1634.

A journal article with 3 authors

Russell SH, Hancock MP, McCullough J (2007) The pipeline. Benefits of undergraduate research experiences. Science 316:548–549.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

Kohl SW, Weiner L, Schwartsburd L, Konstantinovski L, Shimon LJW, Ben-David Y, Iron MA, Milstein D (2009) Consecutive thermal H2 and light-induced O2 evolution from water promoted by a metal complex. Science 324:74–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iwacz G, Jajszczyk A, Zajączkowski M (2008) Multimedia Broadcasting and Multicasting in Mobile Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ingram JC, DeClerck F, Rumbaitis del Rio C eds. (2012) Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction: The Application of Ecology in Development Solutions. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bykova NV, Igamberdiev AU (2016) Redox State in Plant Mitochondria and its Role in Stress Tolerance. In: Redox State as a Central Regulator of Plant-Cell Stress Responses (Gupta DK, Palma JM, Corpas FJ, eds), pp 93–115. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Neuroscience.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016) The Philae Lander Is Officially Dead. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-philae-lander-is-officially-dead/ [Accessed October 30, 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 (2006) Higher Education: More Information Could Help Education Determine the Extent to Which Eligible Servicemembers Serving on Active Duty Benefited from Relief Provided by Lenders and Schools. 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

Andrade NA (2008) Environmental fate of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in agricultural soils which have received biosolids application.

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

Billard M (2013) Scrooge Has a Sense of Humor. New York Times:E13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kolber, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kolber, 2006; Soukoulis and Wegener, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Soukoulis and Wegener, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kohl et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Neuroscience
Abbreviation	J. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	0270-6474
ISSN (online)	1529-2401
Scope	General Neuroscience