How to format your references using the The Neuroscientist citation style

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

Schiermeier Q. 2003. Nobel laureate slams misconduct smear. Nature 421:773.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen MS, Goodman DW. 2004. The structure of catalytically active gold on titania. Science 306:252–255.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ju S-Y, Kopcha WP, Papadimitrakopoulos F. 2009. Brightly fluorescent single-walled carbon nanotubes via an oxygen-excluding surfactant organization. Science 323:1319–1323.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wen P, Zheng N, Li L, Shi Q. 2014. Symmetrically periodic segregation in a vertically vibrated binary granular bed. Sci. Rep. 4:6914.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Box GEP, Luceño A, Paniagua-Quiñones MDC. 2009. Statistical Control by Monitoring and Adjustment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Younos T, Grady CA eds. 2014. Potable Water: Emerging Global Problems and Solutions. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Shapiro S. 2006. Effectiveness. In: Benthem J van, Heinzmann G, Rebuschi M, Visser H, editors. The Age of Alternative Logics: Assessing Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Today. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. pp. 37–49.

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 Neuroscientist.

Blog post

Hamilton K. 2016. To Fight Antibiotic Resistance, We Need To Fight Bad Prescribing Habits. IFLScience [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/to-fight-antibiotic-resistance-we-need-to-fight-bad-prescribing-habits/

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. 1973. Advanced Airborne Command Post Program. 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

Bui L. 2017. Mind Over Matter Telepsychiatry.

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

Rothenberg B. 2017. Federer and Nadal Have Never Met In New York, but Have Come Close. New York Times:B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier 2003; Chen and Goodman 2004).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Goodman 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wen and others 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Neuroscientist
Abbreviation	Neuroscientist
ISSN (print)	1073-8584
ISSN (online)	1089-4098
Scope	Clinical Neurology General Neuroscience