How to format your references using the Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders. 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

[1]

Kentsis A. Correspondence patterns: mechanisms and models of human dynamics. Nature 2006;441:E5; discussion E5-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

van Enk SJ, Kimble HJ. Comment on “Quantum state transfer between matter and light.” Science 2005;309:1187; author reply 1187.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Keenan SW, Engel AS, Elsey RM. The alligator gut microbiome and implications for archosaur symbioses. Sci Rep 2013;3:2877.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pertel T, Hausmann S, Morger D, Züger S, Guerra J, Lascano J, et al. TRIM5 is an innate immune sensor for the retrovirus capsid lattice. Nature 2011;472:361–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Natsuno T. i-Mode Strategy. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Young SL, Pierce FJ, editors. Automation: The Future of Weed Control in Cropping Systems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Abracham A. Quo Vadis Hybrid Intelligent Systems: New Trends and Approaches. In: Corchado E, Kurzyński M, Woźniak M, editors. Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems: 6th International Conference, HAIS 2011, Wroclaw, Poland, May 23-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 30–30.

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 Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Beliefs About Innate Talent May Dissuade Students From STEM. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/beliefs-about-innate-talent-may-dissuade-students-stem/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Higher Education: Verification Helps Prevent Student Aid Payments to Ineligible Noncitizens. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Alvarez C. Support groups for children of depressed parents: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

Hollander S. Soccer at Haverford: More Than a Game. New York Times 2002:D7.

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	Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
Abbreviation	Ther. Adv. Neurol. Disord.
ISSN (print)	1756-2856
ISSN (online)	1756-2864
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology Pharmacology