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

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

Sethmann I (2013) Materials science. Creating flexible calcite fibers with proteins. Science 339:1281–1282.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lerner J, Tirole J (2014) Intellectual property. A better route to tech standards. Science 343:972–973.

A journal article with 3 authors

Percec V, Ungar G, Peterca M (2006) Chemistry. Self-assembly in action. Science 313:55–56.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

Reed MB, Saliba KJ, Caruana SR, Kirk K, Cowman AF (2000) Pgh1 modulates sensitivity and resistance to multiple antimalarials in Plasmodium falciparum. Nature 403:906–909.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Plantin J-C (2014) Participatory Mapping. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yang LT, Zhou X, Zhao W, Wu Z, Zhu Y, Lin M eds. (2005) Embedded Software and Systems: Second International Conference, ICESS 2005, Xi’an, China, December 16-18, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Durville D (2009) A Finite Element Approach of the Behaviour of Woven Materials at Microscopic Scale. In: Mechanics of Microstructured Solids: Cellular Materials, Fibre Reinforced Solids and Soft Tissues (Ganghoffer J-F, Pastrone F, eds), pp 39–46 Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Neuroscience.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) Number Of Super Powerful Typhoons Has “Doubled Or Even Tripled” Since 1970s. IFLScience Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/number-super-powerful-typhoones-doubled-tripled-since-1970s/ [Accessed October 30, 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 (2014) Maritime Administration: Ship Disposal Program Needs Improved Communications and Updated Strategic Plan. 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

Jennings S (2015) Hiring, promotions, and identity negotiation of female hiring agents in American corporate retail.

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

Sengupta S, Hubbard B (2017) Truce That Trump Announced at G-20 Survives Its First Day in Southwestern Syria. New York Times:A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sethmann, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Sethmann, 2013; Lerner and Tirole, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lerner and Tirole, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Reed et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Neuroscience
Abbreviation	J. Neurosci.
ISSN (print)	0270-6474
ISSN (online)	1529-2401
Scope	General Neuroscience