How to format your references using the Progress in Neurobiology citation style

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

Heckenberger, M., 2009. Journal club. An archaeologist looks at South America’s early complex societies. Nature 458, 683.

A journal article with 2 authors

Verhulst, S., Tinbergen, J.M., 2001. Variation in food supply, time of breeding, and energy expenditure in birds. Science 294, 471.

A journal article with 3 authors

Montague, P.R., Hyman, S.E., Cohen, J.D., 2004. Computational roles for dopamine in behavioural control. Nature 431, 760–767.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wolf, M., van Doorn, G.S., Leimar, O., Weissing, F.J., 2007. Life-history trade-offs favour the evolution of animal personalities. Nature 447, 581–584.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eisner, H., 2005. Managing Complex Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hohenfellner, R., 2005. Manual Endourology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Srivastava, A., Klassen, E.P., 2016. Shapes of Planar Curves, in: Klassen, E.P. (Ed.), Functional and Shape Data Analysis, Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 125–165.

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 Progress in Neurobiology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Algorithm Improves Object Recognition For Robots [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, 1995. Multiple Teacher Training Programs: Information on Budgets, Services, and Target Groups (No. HEHS-95-71FS). 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

Cai, S., 2008. 3D Numerical Modeling of Dry/Wet Contact Mechanics for Rough, Multilayered Elastic-Plastic Solid Surfaces and Effects of Hydrophilicity/Hydrophobicity During Separation with Applications (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Billard, M., 2012. A Chicer, Cheaper New Outlook. New York Times E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heckenberger, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Heckenberger, 2009; Verhulst and Tinbergen, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Verhulst and Tinbergen, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Wolf et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Progress in Neurobiology
Abbreviation	Prog. Neurobiol.
ISSN (print)	0301-0082
Scope	General Neuroscience