How to format your references using the Neurocase citation style

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

Ihde, D. (2000). Putting technology in its place. Nature, 404(6781), 935.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hadders, M. A., & Lens, S. M. A. (2014). Cell biology. Mind the midzone. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6194), 265–266.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, C., Shang, X.-D., & Huang, R. X. (2014). Horizontal eddy energy flux in the world oceans diagnosed from altimetry data. Scientific Reports, 4, 5316.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Arvanitidis, J., Papagelis, K., Margadonna, S., Prassides, K., & Fitch, A. N. (2003). Temperature-induced valence transition and associated lattice collapse in samarium fulleride. Nature, 425(6958), 599–602.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. (1995). Guidelines for Safe Storage and Handling of Reactive Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nesterenko, M. V. (2011). Thin Impedance Vibrators: Theory and Applications (V. A. Katrich, Y. M. Penkin, V. M. Dakhov, & S. L. Berdnik, Eds.; Vol. 95). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, F., & Klette, R. (2011). Partitioning a Polygon or the Plane. In R. Klette (Ed.), Euclidean Shortest Paths: Exact or Approximate Algorithms (pp. 127–169). Springer.

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 Neurocase.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, June 17). Some Thought She Was Possessed By The Devil, But Doctors Figured Out What Was Causing This Little Girls Uncontrollable Laughter. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1997). Commercial Passenger Vehicles: Safety Inspection of Commercial Buses and Vans Entering the United States From Mexico (RCED-97-194). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Seyed Jalali Aghdam, S. M. (2015). Silica aerogel, an alternative to micromachined air gap for thermal insulation of microheaters [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Louisiana.

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

Pilon, M. (2014, February 22). Canada Dominant in Curling. New York Times, D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ihde, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hadders & Lens, 2014; Ihde, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Hadders & Lens, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Arvanitidis et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurocase
Abbreviation	Neurocase
ISSN (print)	1355-4794
ISSN (online)	1465-3656
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Clinical Neurology