How to format your references using the Neurotoxicity Research citation style

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

Olveczky BP (2014) Neuroscience: Ordered randomness in fly love songs. Nature 507:177–178

A journal article with 2 authors

Stuart DR, Fagnou K (2007) The catalytic cross-coupling of unactivated arenes. Science 316:1172–1175

A journal article with 3 authors

Berg RW, Alaburda A, Hounsgaard J (2007) Balanced inhibition and excitation drive spike activity in spinal half-centers. Science 315:390–393

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li T, Ota S, Kim J, et al (2014) Axial plane optical microscopy. Sci Rep 4:7253

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen CJ (2011) Physics of Solar Energy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Crescenzi F, Mignani S (eds) (2014) Statistical Methods and Applications from a Historical Perspective: Selected Issues. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Simonin G, Artigues C, Hebrard E, Lopez P (2012) Scheduling Scientific Experiments on the Rosetta/Philae Mission. In: Milano M (ed) Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming: 18th International Conference, CP 2012, Québec City, QC, Canada, October 8-12, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 23–37

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 Neurotoxicity Research.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) This New Species Of Millipede Has 4 Penises And 414 Legs. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-new-species-of-millipede-has-4-penises-and-414-legs/. 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

Government Accountability Office (2000) Environmental Protection Agency: Control of Air Pollution From New Motor Vehicles--Tier 2 Motor Vehicle Emissions Standards and Gasoline Sulfur Control Requirements. 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

Currano LJ (2010) Latching microelectromechanical shock sensor systems: Design, modeling, and experiments. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Walsh MW (2017) False Rumors Are Flying About Insurance Claims. New York Times A18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Olveczky 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Stuart and Fagnou 2007; Olveczky 2014).

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

Two authors: (Stuart and Fagnou 2007)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurotoxicity Research
Abbreviation	Neurotox. Res.
ISSN (print)	1029-8428
ISSN (online)	1476-3524
Scope	General Neuroscience Toxicology