How to format your references using the Journal of Neural Engineering citation style

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

[1]

Lindley D 2001 Questions of direction Nature 410 305

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Melosh H J and Collins G S 2005 Planetary science: Meteor Crater formed by low-velocity impact Nature 434 157

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Karlsson M P, Tervo D G R and Karpova A Y 2012 Network resets in medial prefrontal cortex mark the onset of behavioral uncertainty Science 338 135–9

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Lu X, Tang L, Li K, Zheng J, Zhao P, Tao Y and Li L-X 2014 Contribution of NKX2-3 polymorphisms to inflammatory bowel diseases: a meta-analysis of 35358 subjects Sci. Rep. 4 3924

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Xing B, Vecitis C D and Senesi N 2016 Engineered Nanoparticles and the Environment: Biophysicochemical Processes and Toxicity (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Jandial R and Chen M Y 2012 Regenerative Biology of the Spine and Spinal Cord (New York, NY: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hu J 2015 Adoption of Mobile Technology in Higher Education: Introduction Handbook of Mobile Teaching and Learning ed Y (aimee) Zhang (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 331–6

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 Neural Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K 2016 This Site Helps You Delete Your Accounts And Disappear From The Internet IFLScience

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 1999 Department of Transportation: Credit Assistance for Surface Transportation Projects (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

[1]

Oparnica D 2013 The role of nurses in health care reform: A project report Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Nagourney A and Berger J 2010 Horror at Desert Ritual as Racer Flips Into Crowd New York Times A1

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 Neural Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Neural Eng.
ISSN (print)	1741-2560
ISSN (online)	1741-2552
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience