How to format your references using the The Neuroscientist citation style

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

Segal M. 2012. Material history: Learning from silicon. Nature 483:S43-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dennis C, Byrne N. 2004. Harvesting biotechnology. Nature 429:1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Devincre B, Hoc T, Kubin L. 2008. Dislocation mean free paths and strain hardening of crystals. Science 320:1745–1748.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Egli D, Rosains J, Birkhoff G, Eggan K. 2007. Developmental reprogramming after chromosome transfer into mitotic mouse zygotes. Nature 447:679–685.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Attokaran M. 2011. Natural Food Flavors and Colorants. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Forsyth D, Torr P, Zisserman A eds. 2008. Computer Vision – ECCV 2008: 10th European Conference on Computer Vision, Marseille, France, October 12-18, 2008, Proceedings, Part IV. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Williams K, March L, Wassell SR. 2010. Leon Battista Alberti, De componendis cifris. In: Williams K, March L, Wassell SR, editors. The Mathematical Works of Leon Battista Alberti. Basel: Springer. pp. 169–200.

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 Neuroscientist.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Incredible New Photos Of Pluto Show Blue Skies And Water Ice. IFLScience [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/blue-haze-and-water-ice-pluto/

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. 1978. Interactive Graphics in the United Kingdom. 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

Watson AM. 2009. A novel role for MUC7 mucin glycoprotein in the innate immunity and genetic propensity of asthma.

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

Belson K, Lehren AW. 2013. Road Runners Facing Difficulty Months After Marathon Uproar. New York Times:D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Segal 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Dennis and Byrne 2004; Segal 2012).

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

Two authors: (Dennis and Byrne 2004)
Three or more authors: (Egli and others 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Neuroscientist
Abbreviation	Neuroscientist
ISSN (print)	1073-8584
ISSN (online)	1089-4098
Scope	Clinical Neurology General Neuroscience