How to format your references using the Basal Ganglia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Basal Ganglia. 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

[1]

W. Hong, Science & SciLifeLab Prize. Assembly of a neural circuit, Science 342 (2013) 1186.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G.B. Deane, M.D. Stokes, Scale dependence of bubble creation mechanisms in breaking waves, Nature 418 (2002) 839–844.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Driscoll, A. Hudson, S.P. Jackson, Yeast Rtt109 promotes genome stability by acetylating histone H3 on lysine 56, Science 315 (2007) 649–652.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Wang, X. Zhao, P. Gao, M. Wu, c-Myc modulates microRNA processing via the transcriptional regulation of Drosha, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1942.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Lombard, SolidWorks® Administration Bible, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

D.K. Maheshwari, ed., Plant Growth and Health Promoting Bacteria, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Ghafari, A. Gurfinkel, R. Trefler, Verification of Parameterized Systems with Combinations of Abstract Domains, in: D. Lee, A. Lopes, A. Poetzsch-Heffter (Eds.), Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems: Joint 11th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference FMOODS 2009 and 29th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference FORTE 2009, Lisboa, Portugal, June 9-12, 2009. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 57–72.

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 Basal Ganglia.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Original Proteins Have Been Extracted From An 80-Million-Year-Old Fossil, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/original-proteins-have-been-extracted-from-an-80millionyearold-fossil/ (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, Migrant Children: Education and HHS Need to Improve the Exchange of Participant Information, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Guedez, Developing Correlations for Velocity Models in Vertical Transverse Isotropic Media: Bakken Case Study, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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

[1]

I. Urbina, S. Fink, A Deadly Fungus and Questions at a Hospital, New York Times (2014) A1.

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	Basal Ganglia
Abbreviation	Basal Ganglia
ISSN (print)	2210-5336
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology