How to format your references using the Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy citation style

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

Roos, D.S., 2005. Genetics. Themes and variations in apicomplexan parasite biology. Science 309, 72–73.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lister, A.M., Sher, A.V., 2015. Evolution and dispersal of mammoths across the Northern Hemisphere. Science 350, 805–809.

A journal article with 3 authors

Richardson, J.J., Björnmalm, M., Caruso, F., 2015. Multilayer assembly. Technology-driven layer-by-layer assembly of nanofilms. Science 348, aaa2491.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fridley, B.L., Jenkins, G.D., Grill, D.E., Kennedy, R.B., Poland, G.A., Oberg, A.L., 2013. Soft truncation thresholding for gene set analysis of RNA-seq data: application to a vaccine study. Sci. Rep. 3, 2898.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anisman, H., 2015. Stress and Your Health. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Tangpricha, V. (Ed.), 2016. Vitamin D: A Clinical Casebook, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Qureshi, A.H., 2013. Distinguished Essay: Reflections on the Global Trading Order Twenty Years After Marrakesh: A Development Perspective, in: Herrmann, C., Krajewski, M., Terhechte, J.P. (Eds.), European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2014. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 93–114.

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 Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Research Reveals How Discrimination Damages Health Of Transgender People [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1999. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Additional Work Remains to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services (No. T-AIMD-99-143). 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

Popoveniuc, S., 2009. A framework for secure mixnet-based electronic voting (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2004. World Briefing | Asia: Putin Indicates Kurile Deal Is Not Likely Soon. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Roos, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lister and Sher, 2015; Roos, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lister and Sher, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Fridley et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy
Abbreviation	J. Chem. Neuroanat.
ISSN (print)	0891-0618
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience