How to format your references using the American Journal of Neuroradiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Neuroradiology (AJNR). 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 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

Honour JW. The fight for fair play. Nature 2004;430:143–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scher HD, Martin EE. Timing and climatic consequences of the opening of Drake Passage. Science 2006;312:428–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li Y, Moon K-S, Wong CP. Materials science. Electronics without lead. Science 2005;308:1419–20.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Roca AL, Georgiadis N, Pecon-Slattery J, et al. Genetic evidence for two species of elephant in Africa. Science 2001;293:1473–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eicker U. Solar Technologies for Buildings. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Matthews AM, Fellers JC, eds. Treating Comorbid Opioid Use Disorder in Chronic Pain. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang T, Feng J. Algorithms in Computational Biology. In: Jiang R, Zhang X, Zhang MQ, eds. Basics of Bioinformatics: Lecture Notes of the Graduate Summer School on Bioinformatics of China. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013:151–61.

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 American Journal of Neuroradiology.

Blog post

Andrews R. Ancient Collision Created Ice Volcanoes On Saturn’s Moon. IFLScience 2017 Mar 28. [Epub ahead of print].

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. Summary of Selected GAO Reports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dobson EC. Elizabeth C. Dobson Consulting and Design: A business plan for aging-in-place resources. 2012. [Epub ahead of print].

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

Qiu L. Does Amazon Pay Tax? Yes. New York Times. August 16, 2017:B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	American Journal of Neuroradiology
Abbreviation	AJNR Am. J. Neuroradiol.
ISSN (print)	0195-6108
ISSN (online)	1936-959X
Scope	Clinical Neurology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging