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

Moazed D. 2009. Molecular biology. Rejoice--RNAi for yeast. Science 326:533–534.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sajish M, Schimmel P. 2015. A human tRNA synthetase is a potent PARP1-activating effector target for resveratrol. Nature 519:370–373.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pack A, Shelley JMG, Palme H. 2004. Chondrules with peculiar REE patterns: implications for solar nebular condensation at high C/O. Science 303:997–1000.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Myong S, Rasnik I, Joo C, Lohman TM, Ha T. 2005. Repetitive shuttling of a motor protein on DNA. Nature 437:1321–1325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pachamanova DA, Fabozzi FJ. 2010. Simulation and Optimization in Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zhang W, Tanigawa Y eds. 2006. Number Theory: Tradition and Modernization. Boston, MA: Springer US

A chapter in an edited book

Victoria L, dela Cruz L, Balgos B. 2014. CSOs and the Challenges in Risk and Vulnerability Assessment. In: Shaw R, Izumi T, editors. Civil Society Organization and Disaster Risk Reduction: The Asian Dilemma. Disaster Risk Reduction. Tokyo: Springer Japan. pp. 59–77.

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

Carpineti A. 2016. Curiosity’s Latest Earth-Like Images Will Make You Forget The Rover Is On Mars. IFLScience [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/curiositys-latest-earthlike-images-will-make-you-forget-the-rover-is-on-mars/

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. 1991. SSA Computers: Long-Range Vision Needed to Guide Future Systems Modernization Efforts. 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

Burchman EK. 2014. A dialogue on improvisation, space and melody: Larry Koonse’s approach to improvisation.

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

Yablonsky L. 2006. “Caligula” Gives a Toga Party (But No One’s Really Invited). New York Times:234.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moazed 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Moazed 2009; Sajish and Schimmel 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sajish and Schimmel 2015)
Three or more authors: (Myong and others 2005)

About the journal

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