How to format your references using the eNeuro citation style

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

Lipton SA (2004) Turning down, but not off. Nature 428:473.

A journal article with 2 authors

Herzog MH, Fahle M (2002) Effects of grouping in contextual modulation. Nature 415:433–436.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gauld SB, Dal Porto JM, Cambier JC (2002) B cell antigen receptor signaling: roles in cell development and disease. Science 296:1641–1642.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kühl M, Chen M, Ralph PJ, Schreiber U, Larkum AWD (2005) Ecology: a niche for cyanobacteria containing chlorophyll d. Nature 433:820.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daïan J-F (2014) Equilibrium and Transfer in Porous Media 1. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Burke E, Trick M (Eds.) (2005) Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling V: 5th International Conference, PATAT 2004, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, August 18-20, 2004, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Boger DL (2013) Inhibitors of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase In: Chembiomolecular Science: At the Frontier of Chemistry and Biology (Shibasaki M, Iino M, Osada H eds), pp37–49. Tokyo: Springer Japan.

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 eNeuro.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) The Ganges And Yamuna Rivers Given Same Legal Rights As Humans [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-ganges-and-yamuna-rivers-given-same-legal-rights-as-humans/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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 (1990) GAO Electronic Document Request Service (No. 142758). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rossi G (2010) Anesthesiology, geriatric surgery, and the risk of post-operative cognitive dysfunction (Doctoral dissertation). Long Beach, CA: 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

Drucker J, Lipton E, Haberman M (2017) Trump’s Family Still Benefiting From Businesses. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lipton, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Herzog and Fahle, 2002; Lipton, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Herzog and Fahle, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kühl et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	eNeuro
Abbreviation	eNeuro
ISSN (online)	2373-2822
Scope