How to format your references using the Neuroepidemiology citation style

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

Ponder BA. Cancer genetics. Nature. 2001 May;411(6835):336–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang ZX, Schleyer PR. Construction principles of “hyparenes”: families of molecules with planar pentacoordinate carbons. Science. 2001 Jun;292(5526):2465–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Humanes-Valera D, Foffani G, Aguilar J. Increased cortical responses to forepaw stimuli immediately after peripheral deafferentation of hindpaw inputs. Sci Rep. 2014 Dec;4:7278.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Khare A, Santorelli LA, Strassmann JE, Queller DC, Kuspa A, Shaulsky G. Cheater-resistance is not futile. Nature. 2009 Oct;461(7266):980–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fuller S. RapidIO®: The Embedded System Interconnect. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Kovačević B. Adaptive Digital Filters. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Brokate M, Kersting G. Integrable Functions. In: Kersting G, editor. Measure and Integral. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 41–52.

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 Neuroepidemiology.

Blog post

Taub B. This Is What Your Brain Looks Like On Different Emotions [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Sep

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. School Meal Programs: More Systematic Development of Specifications Could Improve the Safety of Foods Purchased through USDA’s Commodity Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brugna RA. Augmenting the clinical clerkship curriculum of a physician assistant training program with distance education technology: Educational outcomes and student perceptions. 2008

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

Kishkovsky S. The Bolshoi Tries Partnering With a Friend From America. New York Times. 2007 Feb;AR10.

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	Neuroepidemiology
Abbreviation	Neuroepidemiology
ISSN (print)	0251-5350
ISSN (online)	1423-0208
Scope	Epidemiology Clinical Neurology