How to format your references using the Archives of Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Neurology. 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

Wilson EO. Environment: early ant plagues in the New World. Nature. 2005;433(7021):32.

A journal article with 2 authors

Laver G, Garman E. Virology. The origin and control of pandemic influenza. Science. 2001;293(5536):1776-1777.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green HW 2nd, Chen WP, Brudzinski MR. Seismic evidence of negligible water carried below 400-km depth in subducting lithosphere. Nature. 2010;467(7317):828-831.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yang W, Yuan Y, Zong Y, et al. Preliminary study on retinal vascular and oxygen-related changes after long-term silicone oil and foldable capsular vitreous body tamponade. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5272.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tatham M, Morton K. Developments in Speech Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Ram AR. Video Analysis and Repackaging for Distance Education. (Chaudhuri S, ed.). Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Pillai BVS, Kagale S, Chellamma S. Enhancing Productivity and Performance of Oil Seed Crops under Environmental Stresses. In: Venkateswarlu B, Shanker AK, Shanker C, Maheswari M, eds. Crop Stress and Its Management: Perspectives and Strategies. Springer Netherlands; 2012:139-161.

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 Archives of Neurology.

Blog post

Davis J. Scientists Unravel The Causes Of Schizophrenia. IFLScience. May 5, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-unravel-causes-schizophrenia/

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. Tax Systems Modernization: Progress in Achieving IRS’ Business Vision. 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

Bishop-Randol E. Outcomes of the Program of Assertive Community Treatment in Orange County, California. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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

Gustines GG. Zombies Revived in a Walking Dead Digital Comic. New York Times. April 21, 2016:C6.

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	Archives of Neurology
Abbreviation	Arch. Neurol.
ISSN (print)	0003-9942
ISSN (online)	1538-3687
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Clinical Neurology