How to format your references using the Neurology and Therapy citation style

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

1. Meier RP. Diminishing diversity of signed languages. Science. 2000;288:1965b.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Phair RD, Misteli T. High mobility of proteins in the mammalian cell nucleus. Nature. 2000;404:604–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mora C, Danovaro R, Loreau M. Alternative hypotheses to explain why biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are concave-up in some natural ecosystems but concave-down in manipulative experiments. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5427.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Long JA, Young GC, Holland T, Senden TJ, Fitzgerald EMG. An exceptional Devonian fish from Australia sheds light on tetrapod origins. Nature. 2006;444:199–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Declerck P. Discrete Event Systems in Dioid Algebra and Conventional Algebra. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Hilten B van, Nuttin B, editors. Proceedings of the Medtronic Forum for Neuroscience and Neuro-Technology 2005. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pistone G, Riccomagno E, Rogantin MP. Methods in Algebraic Statistics for the Design of Experiments. In: Pronzato L, Zhigljavsky A, editors. Optimal Design and Related Areas in Optimization and Statistics. New York, NY: Springer; 2009. p. 97–132.

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 Neurology and Therapy.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Astronomers Observe Traces Of A Galactic Dance [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/traces-seen-galactic-dance/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Federally Funded Math and Science Materials. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Oct. Report No.: GAO-01-81R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mehlinger S. Fault Lines [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Norton MB. At War With the Shakers. New York Times. 2010 Sep 19;BR20.

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	Neurology and Therapy
Abbreviation	Neurol. Ther.
ISSN (print)	2193-8253
ISSN (online)	2193-6536
Scope	Clinical Neurology Neurology