How to format your references using the Neurobiology of Stress citation style

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

Knight, J., 2001. Physical sciences lose ground as US shifts towards biology. Nature 412, 259.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xiong, Y., Steitz, T.A., 2004. Mechanism of transfer RNA maturation by CCA-adding enzyme without using an oligonucleotide template. Nature 430, 640–645.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wittlinger, M., Wehner, R., Wolf, H., 2006. The ant odometer: stepping on stilts and stumps. Science 312, 1965–1967.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Meyers, D., Mukherjee, S., Cheng, J.-G., Middey, S., Zhou, J.-S., Goodenough, J.B., Gray, B.A., Freeland, J.W., Saha-Dasgupta, T., Chakhalian, J., 2013. Zhang-Rice physics and anomalous copper states in A-site ordered perovskites. Sci. Rep. 3, 1834.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bahadori, A., 2013. Waste Management in the Chemical and Petroleum Industries. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Grosjean, H. (Ed.), 2005. Fine-Tuning of RNA Functions by Modification and Editing, Topics in Current Genetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Wheeler, D.S., Zingarelli, B., Wong, H.R., 2006. The Role of Extracellular Heat Shock Proteins in Cellular Inflammation and Injury, in: Vincent, J.-L. (Ed.), Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 45–51.

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 Neurobiology of Stress.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2016. 25 Myths You Shouldn’t Believe About Earth, Space, And Physics [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/25-myths-you-shouldnt-believe-about-earth-space-and-physics/ (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, 2012. Review of FAA’s Collegiate Training Initiative as Mandated in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (No. GAO-12-996R). 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

Carver, J.R., 2009. CMO: Chief Marketing Officer or chief “marginalized” officer (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Hubbard, B., Saad, H., 2017. Thousands Evacuated From Besieged Syrian Towns. New York Times A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Knight, 2001; Xiong and Steitz, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Xiong and Steitz, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Meyers et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurobiology of Stress
Abbreviation	Neurobiol. Stress
ISSN (print)	2352-2895
Scope	Biochemistry Endocrinology Molecular Biology Physiology Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Endocrine and Autonomic Systems