How to format your references using the Trends in Neuroscience and Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Trends in Neuroscience and Education. 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]

E. Stokstad, PALEONTOLOGY: CT Sleuthing Uncovers Fossil Misfits, Science 288 (2000) 1731.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Flint, M. Munafò, Schizophrenia: genesis of a complex disease, Nature 511 (2014) 412–413.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.S. Sim, T. Bosak, S. Ono, Large sulfur isotope fractionation does not require disproportionation, Science 333 (2011) 74–77.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Azzouz, G.S. Ralph, E. Storkebaum, L.E. Walmsley, K.A. Mitrophanous, S.M. Kingsman, P. Carmeliet, N.D. Mazarakis, VEGF delivery with retrogradely transported lentivector prolongs survival in a mouse ALS model, Nature 429 (2004) 413–417.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. van Helvoort, Next Generation SDH/SONET, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

N. Abu el Ata, Solving the Dynamic Complexity Dilemma: Predictive and Prescriptive Business Management: Answering the Need for a New Paradigm, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Costamagna, Regulating Public Services and International Investment Law, in: M. Krajewski (Ed.), Services of General Interest Beyond the Single Market: External and International Law Dimensions, T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, 2015: pp. 77–109.

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 Trends in Neuroscience and Education.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, These Are All The Weirdly Specific Things Facebook Knows About You, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/these-are-all-the-weirdly-specific-things-facebook-knows-about-you/ (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, Olympic Security: Better Planning Can Enhance U.S. Support to Future Olympic Games, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.C. Felix, Strengthening relationships for siblings in foster families: 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]

J.R. Oestreich, A Divine Crucifixion, With Lingerie, New York Times (2017) C5.

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	Trends in Neuroscience and Education
Abbreviation	Trends Neurosci. Educ.
ISSN (print)	2211-9493
Scope	Neuroscience (miscellaneous) Behavioral Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Education