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

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

Del Genio, A.D., 2002. Atmospheric science. The dust settles on water vapor feedback. Science 296, 665–666.

A journal article with 2 authors

Otto, S.P., Nuismer, S.L., 2004. Species interactions and the evolution of sex. Science 304, 1018–1020.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brown, M.S., Ye, J., Goldstein, J.L., 2010. Medicine. HDL miR-ed down by SREBP introns. Science 328, 1495–1496.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gunnarsson, T.G., Gill, J.A., Sigurbjörnsson, T., Sutherland, W.J., 2004. Pair bonds: arrival synchrony in migratory birds. Nature 431, 646.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rezzoug, A., El-Hadi Zaïm, M., 2011. Non-conventional Electrical Machines. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Paias, A., Ruthmair, M., Voß, S. (Eds.), 2016. Computational Logistics: 7th International Conference, ICCL 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, September 7-9, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Jones, C.M., Darzi, A., Athanasiou, T., 2011. Diagnostic Tests, in: Darzi, A., Athanasiou, T. (Eds.), Evidence Synthesis in Healthcare: A Practical Handbook for Clinicians. Springer, London, pp. 115–125.

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 Methods.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Top Pharmaceutical Companies Ranked On How They Are Improving Access To Medicine [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2010. Telecommunications: Survey of State Public Utility Commissions (GAO-11-13SP, October 2010), an E-supplement to GAO-11-11 (No. GAO-11-13SP). 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

Lemay, M., 2009. Understanding the mechanism of panel attrition (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Qiu, L., 2017. Women and the Draft. New York Times A13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Del Genio, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Del Genio, 2002; Otto and Nuismer, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Otto and Nuismer, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Gunnarsson et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Neuroscience Methods
Abbreviation	J. Neurosci. Methods
ISSN (print)	0165-0270
Scope	General Neuroscience