How to format your references using the Critical Reviews in Neurobiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Critical Reviews in Neurobiology (CRN). 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

Shatz CJ. Lawrence C. Katz (1956-2005). Nature. 2006 Jan 12;439(7073):152.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolff S, Dillin A. Cell biology: The stressful influence of microbes. Nature. 2014 Apr 17;508(7496):328–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Risk JM, Macknight RC, Day CL. FCA does not bind abscisic acid. Nature. 2008 Dec 11;456(7223):E5-6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hao L, Long J, YongBin L, DongRong S, Yan Z, YiGong Z, et al. Hand-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for pulmonary metastasectomy through sternocostal triangle access: superiority in detection of non-imaged pulmonary nodules. Sci Rep. 2014 Apr 1;4:4539.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Glasgow LA. Applied Mathematics for Science and Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Murrell DF, editor. Clinical Cases in Autoimmune Blistering Diseases. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XII, 166 p. 39 illus., 38 illus. in color. (Clinical Cases in Dermatology; vol. 5).

A chapter in an edited book

Moore N. Me to We. In: Asabere-Ameyaw A, Anamuah-Mensah J, Dei GS, Raheem K, editors. Indigenist African Development and Related Issues: Towards a Transdisciplinary Perspective. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2014. p. 49–63.

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 Critical Reviews in Neurobiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015. Bomb Sniffing Dogs Detect Prostate Cancer With More Than 95% Accuracy.

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. U.S. Aerospace Industry: Progress in Implementing Aerospace Commission Recommendations, and Remaining Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Sep. Report No.: GAO-06-920.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Maddox CE. Postcolonial play: Encounters with sport and physical culture in contemporary India [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2012.

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

Hodara S. Unseen Ingredients: Cash, and Lots of Time. New York Times. 2016 Aug 28;WE9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Critical Reviews in Neurobiology
ISSN (print)	0892-0915
ISSN (online)	2375-0014
Scope