How to format your references using the Future Neurology citation style

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

Riding R. Geochemistry. A hard life for cyanobacteria. Science 336(6080), 427–428 (2012).

A journal article with 2 authors

Bays PM, Husain M. Response to Comment on ‘Dynamic Shifts of Limited Working Memory Resources in Human Vision’. Science 323(5916), 877 (2009).

A journal article with 3 authors

Koh K, Zheng X, Sehgal A. JETLAG resets the Drosophila circadian clock by promoting light-induced degradation of TIMELESS. Science 312(5781), 1809–1812 (2006).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bagchi J, Durret F, Neto GBL, Paul S. Giant ringlike radio structures around galaxy cluster Abell 3376. Science 314(5800), 791–794 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blanchet G, Charbit M. Digital Signal and Image Processing Using Matlab®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2015).

An edited book

Gikhman II. The Theory of Stochastic Processes III. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007).

A chapter in an edited book

van der Weide TL, Dignum F, Meyer J-JC, Prakken H, Vreeswijk GAW. Arguing about Preferences and Decisions. In: Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: 7th International Workshop, ArgMAS 2010 Toronto, ON, Canada, May 10, 2010 Revised, Selected and Invited Papers. McBurney P, Rahwan I, Parsons S (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 68–85 (2011).

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 Future Neurology.

Blog post

Andrew E. ‘Underwater Volcano In West Indies May Erupt Soon’ (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. Air Traffic Control: Status of the Current Modernization Program and Planning for the Next Generation System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2006).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lincoln JJ. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, (2010).

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

Vecsey G. Torre’s Gift to All Fathers: Frank Talk About Prostate Cancer, (2011).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Future Neurology
Abbreviation	Future Neurol.
ISSN (print)	1479-6708
ISSN (online)	1748-6971
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology