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

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

A. Dance, Micromanagement with light, Nature 528, 291 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

E. Gomez Perdiguero and F. Geissmann, Cancer immunology. Identifying the infiltrators, Science 344, 801 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

J. Burrone, M. O’Byrne, and V. N. Murthy, Multiple forms of synaptic plasticity triggered by selective suppression of activity in individual neurons, Nature 420, 414 (2002).

A journal article with 99 or more authors

S. Middey, P. Rivero, D. Meyers, M. Kareev, X. Liu, Y. Cao, J. W. Freeland, S. Barraza-Lopez, and J. Chakhalian, Polarity compensation in ultra-thin films of complex oxides: the case of a perovskite nickelate, Sci. Rep. 4, 6819 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

W. Jäger and G. Marzahn, Mauerwerk, Weinheim, Germany, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA (2010).

An edited book

F. Tjadens, Mobility of Health Professionals: Health Systems, Work Conditions, Patterns of Health Workers’ Mobility and Implications for Policy Makers, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer (2013).

A chapter in an edited book

R. Brüggemann and G. P. Patil, Structures of Partial Orders, in Ranking and Prioritization for Multi-indicator Systems: Introduction to Partial Order Applications, Edited by G. P. Patil, New York, NY, Springer (2011), pp. 57–74.

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 Neuroscience and Neuroengineering.

Blog post

J. Fang, Five armored spiders discovered in Chinese caves, (2014).

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, Aviation Safety: Conditions Within the Air Traffic Control Work Force, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office (1989).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

M. A. Gomes, Cognitive science approaches to actor training: Interrogating conceptual language, (2017).

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

M. Billard, From the Mosh Pit To a Life in Balance, (2012).

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 Neuroscience and Neuroengineering
Abbreviation	J. Neurosci. Neuroeng.
ISSN (print)	2168-2011
ISSN (online)	2168-202X
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