How to format your references using the NeuroReport citation style

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

Büttiker M. Physics. Detecting and controlling electron correlations. Science 2006; 313 (5793): 1587–1588.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lasne F, de Ceaurriz J. Recombinant erythropoietin in urine. Nature 2000; 405 (6787): 635.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oh JS, Susor A, Conti M. Protein tyrosine kinase Wee1B is essential for metaphase II exit in mouse oocytes. Science 2011; 332 (6028): 462–465.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lobell DB, Burke MB, Tebaldi C, Mastrandrea MD, Falcon WP, Naylor RL. Prioritizing climate change adaptation needs for food security in 2030. Science 2008; 319 (5863): 607–610.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Piegorsch WW, Bailer AJ. Analyzing Environmental Data. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Kennedy A. Pro CSS for High Traffic Websites. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Kypraios I, Young RCD, Chatwin CR. Logarithmic r-θ Map for Hybrid Optical Neural Network Filter for Object Recognition within Cluttered Scenes. In: Grgic M, Delac K, Ghanbari M (eds). Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. pp. 91–120.

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 NeuroReport.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Amazing Finding Of Dunes On Rosetta’s Comet. IFLScience 2017;

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. Community Colleges: New Federal Research Center May Enhance Current Understanding of Developmental Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Woo C. Cross-Cultural Encounter and the Novel: Nation, Identity, and Genre in Nineteenth-Century British Literature. 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

Rutenberg J, Steel E, Koblin J. Kisses and Fear for the Women From Fox News. New York Times 2016; 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	NeuroReport
Abbreviation	Neuroreport
ISSN (print)	0959-4965
ISSN (online)	1473-558X
Scope	General Neuroscience