How to format your references using the Neurochemical Research citation style

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

Smaglik P (2004) A delicate balance. Nature 429:323

A journal article with 2 authors

Atencia J, Beebe DJ (2005) Controlled microfluidic interfaces. Nature 437:648–655

A journal article with 3 authors

Piovia-Scott J, Spiller DA, Schoener TW (2011) Effects of experimental seaweed deposition on lizard and ant predation in an island food web. Science 331:461–463

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Su H, Bidère N, Zheng L, et al (2005) Requirement for caspase-8 in NF-kappaB activation by antigen receptor. Science 307:1465–1468

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hermans J, Lentz B (2013) Equilibria and Kinetics of Biological Macromolecules. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rao KR (2016) Psychology in the Indian Tradition, 1st ed. 2016. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Valeta T (2010) Historical Aspects of Epilepsy: Overview. In: Panayiotopoulos CP (ed) Atlas of Epilepsies. Springer, London, pp 23–25

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 Neurochemical Research.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Doctors Warn About New Year “Detoxes.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-warn-about-new-year-detoxes/. 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 (1988) Highways: How State Agencies Adopt New Pavement Technologies. 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

Nasiriamini S (2010) The need for adaptive network application architectures. 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

Melnick DJ, Pearl MC, Warfield J (2015) Make Forests Pay. New York Times A21

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	Neurochemical Research
Abbreviation	Neurochem. Res.
ISSN (print)	0364-3190
ISSN (online)	1573-6903
Scope	Biochemistry General Medicine Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience