This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurological Sciences. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.
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. |
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| EndNote | Find the style here: output styles overview |
| 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. |
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 authorBrownlee M (2001) Biochemistry and molecular cell biology of diabetic complications. Nature 414:813–820
A journal article with 2 authorsStamm LM, Goldberg MB (2011) Microbiology. Establishing the secretion hierarchy. Science 331:1147–1148
A journal article with 3 authorsLin X, Clark AC, Chan MHW (2007) Probable heat capacity signature of the supersolid transition. Nature 449:1025–1028
A journal article with 5 or more authors Homes CC, Tu JJ, Li J, et al (2013) Optical conductivity of nodal metals. Sci Rep 3:3446Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.
An authored bookIyengar SS, Parameshwaran N, Phoha VV, et al (2010) Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
An edited bookEverly GS Jr (2013) A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response, 3rd ed. 2013. Springer, New York, NY
A chapter in an edited bookGaševic D, Djuric D, Devedžic V (2009) Model Driven Engineering. In: Djuric D, Ga¿evic D (eds) Model Driven Engineering and Ontology Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 125–155
Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Neurological Sciences.
Andrew E (2015) Curiosity’s Drill Reveals Inner Color of Mars. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/curiosity-s-drill-reveals-inner-color-mars/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018
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 reportGovernment Accountability Office (1995) Medicare Transaction System: Strengthened Management and Sound Development Approach Critical to Success. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC
Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.
Doctoral dissertationHarris KR (2010) The need for social workers in community clinic settings: A grant writing project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach
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 Brantley B (2016) An Odder Couple Takes the Stage. New York Times C1References 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].
| Full journal title | Neurological Sciences |
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| Abbreviation | Neurol. Sci. |
| ISSN (print) | 1590-1874 |
| ISSN (online) | 1590-3478 |
| Scope | General Medicine Dermatology Clinical Neurology Psychiatry and Mental health |