How to format your references using the Journal of Neurochemistry citation style

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

Parak F. (2011) Rudolf L. Mössbauer (1929-2011). Nature 478, 325.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hewitt S. C., Korach K. S. (2011) Cell biology. A hand to support the implantation window. Science 331, 863–864.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khalil A. M., Cambier J. C., Shlomchik M. J. (2012) B cell receptor signal transduction in the GC is short-circuited by high phosphatase activity. Science 336, 1178–1181.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Roos C. F., Riebe M., Häffner H., Hänsel W., Benhelm J., Lancaster G. P. T., Becher C., Schmidt-Kaler F., Blatt R. (2004) Control and measurement of three-qubit entangled states. Science 304, 1478–1480.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krysinski T., Malburet F. (2013) Mechanical Instability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bujalance E. (2010) Symmetries of Compact Riemann Surfaces, Vol. 2007: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, (Cirre F. J., Gamboa J. M., Gromadzki G., eds). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Mosteller F. (2010) Who Wrote the Disputed Federalist Papers, Hamilton or Madison?, in The Pleasures of Statistics: The Autobiography of Frederick Mosteller, (Fienberg S. E., Hoaglin D. C., Tanur J. M., eds), pp. 47–67. Springer, New York, NY.

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 Neurochemistry.

Blog post

Andrew E. (2015) Stem Cells May Hold The Key To Fixing A Mutated Gene That Causes Blindness. 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

Government Accountability Office (1982) Strong Central Management of Office Automation Will Boost Productivity. 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

Weitkunat S. (2015) Facies and Log Analysis of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale. University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Vecsey G. (2010) Three Derby Trainers, Each One of a Kind. New York Times, B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Parak 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Parak 2011; Hewitt and Korach 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hewitt and Korach 2011)
Three or more authors: (Roos et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neurochemistry
Abbreviation	J. Neurochem.
ISSN (print)	0022-3042
ISSN (online)	1471-4159
Scope	Biochemistry Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience