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

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

Coffman, R. L. (2010). Immunology. The origin of TH2 responses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5982), 1116–1117.

A journal article with 2 authors

Webster, R., & Hulse, D. (2005). Controlling avian flu at the source. Nature, 435(7041), 415–416.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aoi, S., Kunugi, T., & Fujiwara, H. (2008). Trampoline effect in extreme ground motion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5902), 727–730.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Potts, R., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Deino, A., Ditchfield, P., & Clark, J. (2004). Small mid-Pleistocene hominin associated with East African Acheulean technology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5680), 75–78.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nahar, L., & Sarker, S. D. (2012). Steroid Dimers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Volpi, P. (Ed.). (2016). Arthroscopy and Sport Injuries: Applications in High-level Athletes (1st ed. 2016.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

White, M. S., Xenopoulos, M. A., Hogsden, K., Metcalfe, R. A., & Dillon, P. J. (2008). Natural lake level fluctuation and associated concordance with water quality and aquatic communities within small lakes of the laurentian great lakes region. In K. M. Wantzen, K.-O. Rothhaupt, M. Mörtl, M. Cantonati, L. G. -Tóth, & P. Fischer (Eds.), Ecological Effects of Water-Level Fluctuations in Lakes (pp. 21–31). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Computational Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, July 6). Can We Predict Who Will Become Mass Shooters? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/can-we-predict-who-will-become-mass-shooters/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1970). Educational Programs in the Public Schools of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (No. 092764). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim, H. (2008). Linkages Between Career Development and Career Technical Education Outcomes Among High Schools in New Jersey (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Philipps, D. (2017, July 26). ‘I Would Love for My President to Meet Me.’ New York Times, p. A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coffman 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Coffman 2010; Webster and Hulse 2005).

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

Two authors: (Webster and Hulse 2005)
Three or more authors: (Potts et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Computational Neuroscience
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	0929-5313
ISSN (online)	1573-6873
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Sensory Systems