How to format your references using the Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis. 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	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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Chang HY (2009) Anatomic demarcation of cells: genes to patterns. Science 326(5957): 1206–1207.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schirle NT, MacRae IJ (2012) The crystal structure of human Argonaute2. Science 336(6084): 1037–1040.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zarrinpar A, Park S-H, Lim WA (2003) Optimization of specificity in a cellular protein interaction network by negative selection. Nature 426(6967): 676–680.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Sasaki S, Nakamura K, Hamabe Y, Kurahashi E, Hiroi T (2001) Production of iron nanoparticles by laser irradiation in a simulation of lunar-like space weathering. Nature 410(6828): 555–557.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Decreusefond L, Moyal P (2012) Stochastic Modeling and Analysis of Telecom Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Blesa MJ, Blum C, Voß S, editors (2014) Hybrid Metaheuristics: 9th International Workshop, HM 2014, Hamburg, Germany, June 11-13, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Hongfang L, Hao Z (2012) Study of Online Test and Fault Diagnosis Technology Based on ATmega128. In: Future Communication, Computing, Control and Management: Volume 2 (Zhang Y, Ed.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, p. 29–35.

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 Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/amazing-photographs-alcoholic-drinks-under-microscope/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1996) .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cinquemani S (2017) .

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

Kishkovsky S (2004) New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chang, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Chang, 2009; Schirle and MacRae, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Schirle and MacRae, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Sasaki et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis
ISSN (print)	0065-1400
ISSN (online)	1689-0035
Scope