How to format your references using the Neurotoxicology citation style

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

Fenton, N., 2011. Science and law: Improve statistics in court. Nature 479, 36–37.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aguzzi, A., Haass, C., 2003. Games played by rogue proteins in prion disorders and Alzheimer’s disease. Science 302, 814–818.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shen, P.-C., Lin, M.-S., Lin, C.-F., 2014. Environmentally benign technology for efficient warm-white light emission. Sci. Rep. 4, 5307.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nishikawa, H., Iga, M., Yamaguchi, J., Saito, K., Kataoka, H., Suzuki, Y., Sugano, S., Fujiwara, H., 2013. Molecular basis of wing coloration in a Batesian mimic butterfly, Papilio polytes. Sci. Rep. 3, 3184.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eidhammer, I., Barsnes, H., Eide, G.E., Martens, L., 2013. Computational and Statistical Methods for Protein Quantification by Mass Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Guénet, J.L., 2015. Genetics of the Mouse. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Eden, P., 2015. The Practices of Apartheid as a War Crime: A Critical Analysis, in: Gill, T.D., Geiß, R., Heinsch, R., McCormack, T., Paulussen, C., Dorsey, J. (Eds.), Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 2013. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, pp. 89–117.

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 Neurotoxicology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. You Probably Haven’t Heard Of These Five Amazing Women Scientists – So Pay Attention [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1989. High-Definition Television: Applications for This New Technology (No. IMTEC-90-9FS). 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

Tang, D., 2009. Event detection in sensor networks (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

Gorman, J., 2017. Demands That Change DNA. New York Times D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fenton, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Aguzzi and Haass, 2003; Fenton, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Aguzzi and Haass, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Nishikawa et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neurotoxicology
Abbreviation	Neurotoxicology
ISSN (print)	0161-813X
Scope	General Neuroscience Toxicology