How to format your references using the Invertebrate Neuroscience citation style

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

Clark MK (2012) Continental collision slowing due to viscous mantle lithosphere rather than topography. Nature 483:74–77

A journal article with 2 authors

Collinge J, Clarke AR (2007) A general model of prion strains and their pathogenicity. Science 318:930–936

A journal article with 3 authors

Deslauriers L, Schelew E, Wieman C (2011) Improved learning in a large-enrollment physics class. Science 332:862–864

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rucker R, Storms D, Sheets A, et al (2005) Biochemistry: is pyrroloquinoline quinone a vitamin? Nature 433:E10-1; discussion E11-2

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Buckel W, Kleiner R (2012) Supraleitung. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Abramowicz W, Tolksdorf R (eds) (2010) Business Information Systems: 13th International Conference, BIS 2010, Berlin, Germany, May 3-5, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bertot Y (2009) Structural Abstract Interpretation: A Formal Study Using Coq. In: Bove A, Barbosa LS, Pardo A, Pinto JS (eds) Language Engineering and Rigorous Software Development: International LerNet ALFA Summer School 2008, Piriapolis, Uruguay, February 24 - March 1, 2008, Revised Tutorial Lectures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 153–194

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 Invertebrate Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Python Requires Emergency Surgery After Swallowing BBQ Tongs. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/peckish-python-swallows-bbq-tongs/. 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 (1982) The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Should Consider Limiting and/or Charging User Fees for Civilian Consultations. 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

Larson EB (2014) Bahamian Quaternary geology and the global carbon budget. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Greenhouse L (2005) Justices Explore U.S. Authority Over States on Assisted Suicide. 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 (Clark 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Collinge and Clarke 2007; Clark 2012).

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

Two authors: (Collinge and Clarke 2007)
Three or more authors: (Rucker et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Invertebrate Neuroscience
Abbreviation	Invert. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	1354-2516
ISSN (online)	1439-1104
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Developmental Neuroscience