How to format your references using the Nature Reviews Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nature Reviews Neurology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Kaplan, W. D. MATERIALS SCIENCE. The mechanism of crystal deformation. Science 349, 1059–1060 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

McNamara, A. K. & Zhong, S. Thermochemical structures beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean. Nature 437, 1136–1139 (2005).

A journal article with 3 authors

Danielewicz, P., Lacey, R. & Lynch, W. G. Determination of the equation of state of dense matter. Science 298, 1592–1596 (2002).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Godoy, R. et al. Valuation of consumption and sale of forest goods from a Central American rain forest. Nature 406, 62–63 (2000).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hernandez, E. M. & Kamal-Eldin, A. Processing and Nutrition of Fats and Oils. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013).

An edited book

Endocytosis in Plants. (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012).

A chapter in an edited book

Hidalgo-Herrero, M., Ortega-Mallén, Y. & Rubio, F. Comparing Alternative Evaluation Strategies for Stream-Based Parallel Functional Languages. in Implementation and Application of Functional Languages: 18th International Symposium, IFL 2006, Budapest, Hungary, September 4-6, 2006, Revised Selected Papers (eds. Horváth, Z., Zsók, V. & Butterfield, A.) 55–72 (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007).

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 Nature Reviews Neurology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. China Launches World’s First Quantum Communications Satellite. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/space/china-launches-world-first-quantum-satellite/ (2016).

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. Women in STEM Research: Federal Agencies Differ in the Data They Collect on Grant Applicants. (2015).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Maddox, C. E. Postcolonial play: Encounters with sport and physical culture in contemporary India. (University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2012).

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

Gustines, G. G. R. L. Stine to Write Comic Books for Marvel. New York Times C3 (2016).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Nature Reviews Neurology
Abbreviation	Nat. Rev. Neurol.
ISSN (print)	1759-4758
ISSN (online)	1759-4766
Scope	Clinical Neurology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience