How to format your references using the Neural Plasticity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neural Plasticity. 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

[1]

I.H. Stairs, “Pulsars in binary systems: probing binary stellar evolution and general relativity.,” Science (New York, N.Y.). vol. 304, no. 5670, pp. 547–552, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Kara and J.D. Boyd, “A micro-architecture for binocular disparity and ocular dominance in visual cortex.,” Nature. vol. 458, no. 7238, pp. 627–631, 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Brooke, T.F. Rosenbaum, and G. Aeppli, “Tunable quantum tunnelling of magnetic domain walls.,” Nature. vol. 413, no. 6856, pp. 610–613, 2001.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

X. Xiu, N.L. Puskar, J.A.P. Shanata, H.A. Lester, and D.A. Dougherty, “Nicotine binding to brain receptors requires a strong cation-pi interaction.,” Nature. vol. 458, no. 7237, pp. 534–537, 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.P. Peca, Real Estate Development and Investment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

D. Liu, C. Alippi, D. Zhao, and A. Hussain, Eds., Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 6th International Conference, BICS 2013, Beijing, China, June 9-11, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Panopoulou, E. Dalakiouridou, E. Tambouris, and K. Tarabanis, “Citizens’ Evaluation of an Online Argument Visualisation Platform for eParticipation,.” In: E. Tambouris, A. Macintosh, and Ø. Sæbø, Eds. Electronic Participation: 4th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2012, Kristiansand, Norway, September 3-5, 2012. Proceedings. pp. 49–60. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012).

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 Neural Plasticity.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “The MESSENGER Spacecraft Has Crashed Into Mercury,” https://www.iflscience.com/space/final-salute-space-hero-messenger-it-crashes-mercury/.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Intercity Passenger Rail: The Congress Faces Critical Decisions About the Role of and Funding for Intercity Passenger Rail Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Kuqi, “A matrix-Based Method for Optimizing the User Interface Design of Electronic Medical Record Systems,” (2013).

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

[1]

S. Chira, “Women Interrupted,” (2017).

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	Neural Plasticity
Abbreviation	Neural Plast.
ISSN (print)	2090-5904
ISSN (online)	1687-5443
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology