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

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

Brooks TM (2014) Conservation: Mind the gaps. Nature 516:336–337

A journal article with 2 authors

Mahowald MW, Schenck CH (2005) Insights from studying human sleep disorders. Nature 437:1279–1285

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith J, Theodoris C, Davidson EH (2007) A gene regulatory network subcircuit drives a dynamic pattern of gene expression. Science 318:794–797

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Funato Y, Makino J, Hut P, et al (2004) The formation of Kuiper-belt binaries through exchange reactions. Nature 427:518–520

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rapaport H (2011) The Literary Theory Toolkit. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Giordan G, Pace E (eds) (2014) Religious Pluralism: Framing Religious Diversity in the Contemporary World. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng J, Berg E (2014) Pediatric Airway. In: Lin F, Patel Z (eds) ENT Board Prep: High Yield Review for the Otolaryngology In-service and Board Exams. Springer, New York, NY, pp 19–23

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 NeuroVirology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Brains Can Make Decisions While We Sleep – Here They Are In Action. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brains-can-make-decisions-while-we-sleep-here-they-are-action/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1976) Review of Ohio State Plan for the Education of Handicapped Children. 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

Burns KN (2017) Impact of Cognitive Tasks on Gait Parameters in Collegiate Athletes. 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

Card J (2017) A River With Too Many Fish. New York Times TR10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brooks 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Mahowald and Schenck 2005; Brooks 2014).

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

Two authors: (Mahowald and Schenck 2005)
Three or more authors: (Funato et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of NeuroVirology
Abbreviation	J. Neurovirol.
ISSN (print)	1355-0284
ISSN (online)	1538-2443
Scope	Virology Clinical Neurology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Neurology