How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience citation style

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

[1]

Rashed R. Portraits of science. A polymath in the 10th century. Science 2002;297:773.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Göpfert MC, Robert D. Biomechanics. Turning the key on Drosophila audition. Nature 2001;411:908.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Martincorena I, Seshasayee ASN, Luscombe NM. Evidence of non-random mutation rates suggests an evolutionary risk management strategy. Nature 2012;485:95–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Stickley CE, St John K, Koç N, Jordan RW, Passchier S, Pearce RB, et al. Evidence for middle Eocene Arctic sea ice from diatoms and ice-rafted debris. Nature 2009;460:376–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Perini K, Sabbion P. Urban Sustainability and River Restoration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Chibbaro S. Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality: The Importance of Being Borderline. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Maris C, Jacobs F. Hobbes, Locke, and Spinoza. In: Maris CW, Jacobs FCLM, editors. Law, Order and Freedom: A Historical Introduction to Legal Philosophy, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012, p. 111–38.

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 Clinical Neuroscience.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Conspiracy Theorists Get Paper Withdrawn Through Bogus Legal Threat. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/conspiracy-theorists-get-paper-withdrawn-through-bogus-legal-threat/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Education and Employment Issue Area Plan: Fiscal Years 1995-96. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wolff A. PRIDE: A psycho-educational peer support group for LGBTIQ youth: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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

[1]

Oestreich JR. Expressive Flair in a New York Debut. New York Times 2016:C2.

In-text citations

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

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	Journal of Clinical Neuroscience
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	0967-5868
Scope	General Medicine Clinical Neurology Physiology (medical) Neurology