How to format your references using the The Journal of Comparative Neurology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Comparative Neurology. 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

Eisenstein M. 2013. Chronobiology: stepping out of time. Nature 497:S10-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Neill JS, Reddy AB. 2011. Circadian clocks in human red blood cells. Nature 469:498–503.

A journal article with 3 authors

Williams JR, Dicarlo L, Marcus CM. 2007. Quantum Hall effect in a gate-controlled p-n junction of graphene. Science 317:638–641.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Lu F, Li S, Jiang Y, Jiang J, Fan H, Lu G, Deng D, Dang S, Zhang X, Wang J, Yan N. 2011. Structure and mechanism of the uracil transporter UraA. Nature 472:243–246.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gwynne A. 2013. Guide to Building Control. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Sebastiano F. 2013. Mobility-based Time References for Wireless Sensor Networks. (Breems LJ, Makinwa KAA, editors.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nielsen SH, Parsons S. 2007. A Generalization of Dung’s Abstract Framework for Argumentation: Arguing with Sets of Attacking Arguments. In: Maudet N, Parsons S, Rahwan I, editors. Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, ArgMAS 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p 54–73.

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 The Journal of Comparative Neurology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. 2016. Proxima Centauri Has A Starspot Cycle Just Like Our Sun. IFLScience [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/proxima-centauri-has-a-starspot-cycle-just-like-our-sun/

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. 1993. Airline Competition: Strategies for Addressing Financial and Competitive Problems in the Airline Industry. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Necaise KW. 2012. Effects of soybean-derived phytoestrogens on reproductive tract development in neonatal male and female pigs: Animal model for the human infant.

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

Crow K. 2003. Sharing a Love Affair With Each Other and Artists. New York Times:F33.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenstein, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (O’Neill and Reddy, 2011; Eisenstein, 2013).

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

Two authors: (O’Neill and Reddy, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lu et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Comparative Neurology
Abbreviation	J. Comp. Neurol.
ISSN (print)	0021-9967
ISSN (online)	1096-9861
Scope	General Neuroscience