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

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

Morse, S. S. (2008). Retrospective: Joshua Lederberg (1925-2008). Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5868), 1351.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schaff, D. P., & Richards, P. G. (2004). Repeating seismic events in China. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5661), 1176–1178.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burnham, D., Kitamura, C., & Vollmer-Conna, U. (2002). What’s new, pussycat? On talking to babies and animals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5572), 1435.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Silver, R. A., Lubke, J., Sakmann, B., & Feldmeyer, D. (2003). High-probability uniquantal transmission at excitatory synapses in barrel cortex. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5652), 1981–1984.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, S. M. (2011). The Controller’s Function. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Duff, A., Lepora, N. F., Mura, A., Prescott, T. J., & Verschure, P. F. M. J. (Eds.). (2014). Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: Third International Conference, Living Machines 2014, Milan, Italy, July 30 – August 1, 2014. Proceedings (Vol. 8608). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang, Q., & Wen, Z. (2011). Phase Diagrams. In Z. Wen (Ed.), Thermodynamics of Materials (pp. 119–156). Springer.

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 Neurolinguistics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, April 1). Could Jurassic Park Ever Come True? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/could-jurassic-park-ever-come-true/

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. (1995). International Aviation: Airline Alliances Produce Benefits, but Effect on Competition Is Uncertain (RCED-95-99). 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

Dimapilis, B. (2015). Service line extension: Acquisition of fluoroscopy equipment to supplement pain management procedures [Doctoral dissertation]. 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

Saslow, L. (2005, October 2). A Rock Club Closes After a Four-Year Run. New York Times, 14LI9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morse, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Morse, 2008; Schaff & Richards, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Schaff & Richards, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Silver et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neurolinguistics
Abbreviation	J. Neurolinguistics
ISSN (print)	0911-6044
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Cognitive Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Linguistics and Language