How to format your references using the Brain Topography citation style

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

Gewin V (2003) In search of the élite. Nature 426:713–717

A journal article with 2 authors

Michaels D, Wagner W (2003) Science and government. Disclosure in regulatory science. Science 302:2073

A journal article with 3 authors

Derry WB, Putzke AP, Rothman JH (2001) Caenorhabditis elegans p53: role in apoptosis, meiosis, and stress resistance. Science 294:591–595

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yan H, Zhang X, Shen Z, Seeman NC (2002) A robust DNA mechanical device controlled by hybridization topology. Nature 415:62–65

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perera AH, Buse LJ (2014) Ecology of Wildfire Residuals in Boreal Forests. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Attanasio M, Capursi V (eds) (2011) Statistical Methods for the Evaluation of University Systems. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Jun B-G (2013) Cyclical Patterns of North Korean Nuclear Crises and Solutions: A South Korean Perspective. In: Kang J (ed) Assessment of the Nuclear Programs of Iran and North Korea. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 53–64

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 Brain Topography.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Scientists Create “Evolved” Protein That Stops Cancer Spreading In Mice. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-create-evolved-protein-stops-cancer-spreading-mice/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2012) Information Technology: Agencies Need to Strengthen Oversight of Billions of Dollars in Operations and Maintenance Investments. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vento KA (2017) The Effects of Progressive Muscle Relaxation on the Subjective Well-Being of Collegiate Athletes. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

(mrs M S ) Isabella (1960) Rosenbach and Books. New York Times The New York Times Book ReviewBR15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin 2003; Michaels and Wagner 2003).

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

Two authors: (Michaels and Wagner 2003)
Three or more authors: (Yan et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Brain Topography
Abbreviation	Brain Topogr.
ISSN (print)	0896-0267
ISSN (online)	1573-6792
Scope	Anatomy Clinical Neurology Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Neurology Radiological and Ultrasound Technology