How to format your references using the Experimental Brain Research citation style

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

Dresser R (2000) Weighing the benefits of new Alzheimer’s treatments. Science 289:869b

A journal article with 2 authors

Rothman DH, Forney DC (2007) Physical model for the decay and preservation of marine organic carbon. Science 316:1325–1328

A journal article with 3 authors

Toda S, Stein RS, Sagiya T (2002) Evidence from the AD 2000 Izu islands earthquake swarm that stressing rate governs seismicity. Nature 419:58–61

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen P, Tao L, Wang T, et al (2018) Structural basis for recognition of frizzled proteins by Clostridium difficile toxin B. Science 360:664–669

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frueh BC, Grubaugh AL, Elhai JD, Ford JD (2012) Assessment and Treatment Planning for PTSD. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Clark PE (2013) Constant-Scale Natural Boundary Mapping to Reveal Global and Cosmic Processes. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Chang J-H (2014) Recent Developments in Poly(butylene terephthalate) Nanocomposites. In: Pandey JK, Reddy KR, Mohanty AK, Misra M (eds) Handbook of Polymernanocomposites. Processing, Performance and Application: Volume A: Layered Silicates. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 293–317

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 Experimental Brain Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Secrets Of “Dim Matter” Revealed. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/secrets-dim-matter-revealed/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2009) Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2009 Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Van Vlack KA (2012) Puaxant tuvip: Powerlands Southern Paiute cultural landscapes and pilgrimage trails. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

McKINLEY JC Jr (2017) Rikers Guards Accused of Turning a Blind Eye to, or Even Enabling, Sex Assaults. New York Times A19

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dresser 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Dresser 2000; Rothman and Forney 2007).

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

Two authors: (Rothman and Forney 2007)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Experimental Brain Research
Abbreviation	Exp. Brain Res.
ISSN (print)	0014-4819
ISSN (online)	1432-1106
Scope	General Neuroscience