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]

Wirth BD. Materials science. How does radiation damage materials? Science 2007;318:923–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Li L, Wang Y. What drives the aerosol distribution in Guangdong--the most developed province in Southern China? Sci Rep 2014;4:5972.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Martin AA, Toth M, Aharonovich I. Subtractive 3D printing of optically active diamond structures. Sci Rep 2014;4:5022.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Leake MC, Chandler JH, Wadhams GH, Bai F, Berry RM, Armitage JP. Stoichiometry and turnover in single, functioning membrane protein complexes. Nature 2006;443:355–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Golio M. Engineering Your Retirement. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Forsting M, Wanke I, editors. Intracranial Vascular Malformations and Aneurysms: From Diagnostic Work-Up to Endovascular Therapy. 2nd Revised Edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yang J, Ma X, Hou C, Yao Z. A Static Multiprocessor Scheduling Algorithm for Arbitrary Directed Task Graphs in Uncertain Environments. In: Bourgeois AG, Zheng SQ, editors. Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 8th International Conference, ICA3PP 2008, Cyprus, June 9-11, 2008 Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 18–29.

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]

Carpineti A. Quantum Computing Breakthrough Leads To System Remaining Stable For 10 Times Longer. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/quantum-computing-breakthrough-leads-to-system-remaining-stable-for-10-times-longer/ (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. Kachemak Bay Ferry: Federally Funded Ferry Was Constructed with Limited Oversight and Faces Future Operating Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Liu CC. Charles T. Griffes’s “Roman Sketches”: A performer’s guide. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Kanter J. Europe Weighs Tax Plans Aimed at Online Giants. New York Times 2017:B4.

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

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