How to format your references using the Neuromuscular Disorders citation style

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

Seife C. ECONOMICS NOBEL: Dealing With Biases and Discrete Choices. Science 2000;290:427.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rehren T, Pusch EB. Late Bronze Age glass production at Qantir-Piramesses, Egypt. Science 2005;308:1756–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Deleault NR, Lucassen RW, Supattapone S. RNA molecules stimulate prion protein conversion. Nature 2003;425:717–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Brown P, Spalding RE, ReVelle DO, Tagliaferri E, Worden SP. The flux of small near-Earth objects colliding with the Earth. Nature 2002;420:294–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hahn A, Behle B, Lischewski D, Rein W. Produktionstechnische Praxis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2002.

An edited book

[1]

Pan J-S, Krömer P, Snášel V, editors. Genetic and Evolutionary Computing: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, ICGEC 2013, August 25 - 27, 2013 - Prague, Czech Republic. vol. 238. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shukla P. Domains and Interfaces in Random Fields. In: Menon GI, Ray P, editors. The Physics of Disordered Systems, Gurgaon: Hindustan Book Agency; 2012, p. 141–58.

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 Neuromuscular Disorders.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Amateur Astronomers Find Supernova That Exploded 970 Million Years Ago. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/amateur-astronomers-find-supernova-that-exploded-970-million-years-ago/ (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. Technology Development: New DOD Space Science and Technology Strategy Provides Basis for Optimizing Investments, but Future Versions Need to Be More Robust. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Grandon J. The Distribution of Apiaceae in Lafayette and St. Martin Parishes. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2015.

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]

Hill J, Kramer AE. No Love for Valentine’s: In Russia, Florists Bank on a Day for Women. New York Times 2017:B7.

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	Neuromuscular Disorders
Abbreviation	Neuromuscul. Disord.
ISSN (print)	0960-8966
Scope	Genetics(clinical) Clinical Neurology Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health Neurology