How to format your references using the Trends in Neuroscience and Education citation style

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

[1]

P.W. Singer, Military robotics and ethics: a world of killer apps, Nature 477 (2011) 399–401.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.L. Bland, M.J. Birnbaum, Cell biology. ADaPting to energetic stress, Science 332 (2011) 1387–1388.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Tilman, P.B. Reich, J.M.H. Knops, Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment, Nature 441 (2006) 629–632.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Shin, Y. Urzhumov, D. Lim, K. Kim, D.R. Smith, A versatile smart transformation optics device with auxetic elasto-electromagnetic metamaterials, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4084.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Naylor, D. Laverty, J. Mallett, The Royal Marsden Hospital Handbook of Wound Management in Cancer Care, Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

E. Lichtfouse, ed., Alternative Farming Systems, Biotechnology, Drought Stress and Ecological Fertilisation, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N.M. Bulgakova, V.P. Zhukov, Continuum Models of Ultrashort Laser–Matter Interaction in Application to Wide-Bandgap Dielectrics, in: M. Castillejo, P.M. Ossi, L. Zhigilei (Eds.), Lasers in Materials Science, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 101–124.

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 Trends in Neuroscience and Education.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Wikipedia Bots Are Having Editing Wars That Can Last For Years, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/wikipedia-bots-are-having-editing-wars-that-can-last-for-years/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Productivity, Science and Technology: Keys to U.S. Economic Growth, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Ishutov, Tectonic characterization of the THUMS-Huntington Beach fault, offshore southern California, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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

[1]

J. Yoo, Executive Power Run Amok, New York Times (2017) A21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Trends in Neuroscience and Education
Abbreviation	Trends Neurosci. Educ.
ISSN (print)	2211-9493
Scope	Neuroscience (miscellaneous) Behavioral Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience Education