How to format your references using the Neuropharmacology citation style

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

Burbine, T.H., 2008. Planetary science. Identifying ancient asteroids. Science 320, 457–458.

A journal article with 2 authors

Relling, M.V., Evans, W.E., 2015. Pharmacogenomics in the clinic. Nature 526, 343–350.

A journal article with 3 authors

Winter, S.S., Clark, B.J., Taube, J.S., 2015. Spatial navigation. Disruption of the head direction cell network impairs the parahippocampal grid cell signal. Science 347, 870–874.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hiratsuka, T., Furihata, K., Ishikawa, J., Yamashita, H., Itoh, N., Seto, H., Dairi, T., 2008. An alternative menaquinone biosynthetic pathway operating in microorganisms. Science 321, 1670–1673.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hanzo, L., Liew, T.H., Yeap, B.L., 2005. Turbo Coding, Turbo Equalisation and Space-Time Coding. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Rassias, T.M., Tóth, L. (Eds.), 2014. Topics in Mathematical Analysis and Applications, Springer Optimization and Its Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Majumder, M., Barman, R.N., 2013. Application of a Genetic Algorithm to Predict the Growth Rate of Bufo melanostictus in Urban Forest, in: Majumder, M., Barman, R.N. (Eds.), Application of Nature Based Algorithm in Natural Resource Management. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 59–74.

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 Neuropharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Australian PM Bans Solar And Wind Power Investment [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/australian-pm-bans-solar-and-wind-power-investment/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2008. Review of the Transportation Security Administration’s Air Cargo Screening Exemptions Report (No. GAO-08-1055R). 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

Zeedick, D.M., 2010. The modified delphi method to analyze the application of instructional design theory to online graduate education (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Cheever, S., 2014. ‘Why Didn’t Rebecca Stop at the Railroad Crossing?’ New York Times MM46.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Burbine, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Burbine, 2008; Relling and Evans, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Relling and Evans, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Hiratsuka et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neuropharmacology
Abbreviation	Neuropharmacology
ISSN (print)	0028-3908
Scope	Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Pharmacology