How to format your references using the European Journal of Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of 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

Cramer P. Molecular biology. Self-correcting messages. Science. 2006;313(5786):447-448.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thompson PM, Ollason JC. Lagged effects of ocean climate change on fulmar population dynamics. Nature. 2001;413(6854):417-420.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cossart R, Aronov D, Yuste R. Attractor dynamics of network UP states in the neocortex. Nature. 2003;423(6937):283-288.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Himler AG, Adachi-Hagimori T, Bergen JE, et al. Rapid spread of a bacterial symbiont in an invasive whitefly is driven by fitness benefits and female bias. Science. 2011;332(6026):254-256.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Curtis PM. Maintaining Mission Critical Systems in a 24/7 Environment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Fusetani N, Clare AS, eds. Antifouling Compounds. Vol 42. Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Tian T, Luo J. A VO-Based Two-Stage Replica Replacement Algorithm. In: Li K, Jesshope C, Jin H, Gaudiot JL, eds. Network and Parallel Computing: IFIP International Conference, NPC 2007, Dalian, China, September 18-21, 2007. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2007:41-50.

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 European Journal of Neurology.

Blog post

Andrew E. We all Age at Different Speeds – and Scientists Have Worked out how to Calculate it. IFLScience. July 7, 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

Government Accountability Office. Tax Systems Modernization: Progress Mixed In Addressing Critical Success Factors. 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

Coyle M. Pre-Service School Counselor’s Perception of Professional Identity Development During Internship. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

Feeney K. QUICK BITE: Cranford; Cranford Didn’t Get the Olympics, Either. New York Times. July 24, 2005:14NJ13.

In-text citations

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

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	European Journal of Neurology
ISSN (print)	1351-5101
ISSN (online)	1468-1331
Scope