How to format your references using the Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska. 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

[1]

Laughlin RB. Physics. The cup of the hand. Science 2004;303:1475–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Timmermann A, Menviel L. Climate change. What drives climate flip-flops? Science 2009;325:273–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kohl KP, Jones CD, Sekelsky J. Evolution of an MCM complex in flies that promotes meiotic crossovers by blocking BLM helicase. Science 2012;338:1363–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kuzmich A, Bowen WP, Boozer AD, Boca A, Chou CW, Duan L-M, et al. Generation of nonclassical photon pairs for scalable quantum communication with atomic ensembles. Nature 2003;423:731–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sab K, Lebée A. Homogenization of Heterogeneous Thin and Thick Plates. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Mueller-Hoeppe D, Loehnert S, Reese S, editors. Recent Developments and Innovative Applications in Computational Mechanics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Krogh PG, Markussen T, Bang AL. Ways of Drifting—Five Methods of Experimentation in Research Through Design. In: Chakrabarti A, editor. ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 1: Theory, Research Methodology, Aesthetics, Human Factors and Education, New Delhi: Springer India; 2015, p. 39–50.

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 Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Doomed Russian Spacecraft Will Re-Enter Earth’s Atmosphere On May 8th. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/russian-spaceship-will-reenter-earths-atmosphere-8th-april/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Pipeline Safety: Department of Transportation Needs to Complete Regulatory, Data, and Guidance Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Deolikar PP. Lecture Video Search Engine Using Hadoop MapReduce. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Greenhouse L. Justices Indicate They May Uphold Voter ID Rules. New York Times 2008:A1.

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	Neurologia i Neurochirurgia Polska
Abbreviation	Neurol. Neurochir. Pol.
ISSN (print)	0028-3843
Scope	Clinical Neurology Surgery