How to format your references using the CNS Drugs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for CNS Drugs. 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. Hughes V. Public health: Where there’s smoke. Nature. 2012;489:S18-20.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Trenberth KE, Otto-Bliesner BL. Paleoclimate. Toward integrated reconstruction of past climates. Science. 2003;300:589–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ismail-Zadeh A, Honda S, Tsepelev I. Linking mantle upwelling with the lithosphere descent [corrected] and the Japan Sea evolution: a hypothesis. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1137.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lapolla JS, Sheldon FH, Remsen JV, Brumfield RT, Baker DJ. Academy of Natural Sciences: Job Cuts. Science. 2005;307:1560b.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Machner H. Einführung in die Kern- und Elementarteilchenphysik. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Leszczynski J, Shukla MK, editors. Practical Aspects of Computational Chemistry III. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Borgefors G, Nyström I, di Baja GS. Discrete Skeletons from Distance Transforms in 2D and 3D. In: Siddiqi K, Pizer SM, editors. Medial Representations: Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. p. 155–90.

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 CNS Drugs.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Young People And E-Cigarettes: What We Know So Far. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Telephone Communications: Issues Affecting Rural Telephone Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Mar. Report No.: RCED-87-74.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Harvey J. Predicting Cost-Inflicting Mate Retention Tactic Use in Women with Borderline Personality Features: Examining the Roles of Maladaptive Schemas and Reactive Aggression [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 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. Vecsey G. Clouds Part Long Enough For a Memorable Ride. New York Times. 2010 May 2;SP9.

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	CNS Drugs
Abbreviation	CNS Drugs
ISSN (print)	1172-7047
ISSN (online)	1179-1934
Scope	Clinical Neurology Pharmacology (medical) Psychiatry and Mental health