How to format your references using the Case Reports in Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Case Reports in 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

Ziemelis K. Hydrocarbon reservoirs. Nature. 2003 Nov;426(6964):317.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chae HG, Kumar S. Materials science. Making strong fibers. Science. 2008 Feb;319(5865):908–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Marshall CH, Pielke RA Sr, Steyaert LT. Wetlands: crop freezes and land-use change in Florida. Nature. 2003 Nov;426(6962):29–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Calignano A, Kátona I, Désarnaud F, Giuffrida A, La Rana G, Mackie K, et al. Bidirectional control of airway responsiveness by endogenous cannabinoids. Nature. 2000 Nov;408(6808):96–101.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paladino B. Corporate Performance Management Best Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Domingue J, Fensel D, Traverso P, editors. Future Internet – FIS 2008: First Future Internet Symposium, FIS 2008 Vienna, Austria, September 29-30, 2008 Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Mocci F, Laaksonen A, Wang Y-L, Saba G, Lai A, Cesare Marincola F. CompChem and NMR Probing Ionic Liquids. In: Caminiti R, Gontrani L, editors. The Structure of Ionic Liquids. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014; pp 97–126.

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 Case Reports in Neurology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Four Eyed Harvestman Fossil Helps Shed Light On Arachnid Evolution [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Apr [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/four-eyed-harvestman-fossil-helps-shed-light-arachnid-evolution/

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. Railroad Safety: Accident Trends and FRA Safety Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Allen SD. Putting out fires: How communication professionals understand and practice conflict resolution. 2014

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

Urbina I. A Renegade Trawler, Chased by Eco-Vigilantes. New York Times. 2015 Jul;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	Case Reports in Neurology
Abbreviation	Case Rep. Neurol.
ISSN (online)	1662-680X
Scope	Clinical Neurology