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The Journal of Neuroscience Citation Generator
Generate references in The Journal of Neuroscience from a DOI or link in seconds. CitApp renders this style with citeproc, the same engine as Zotero and Mendeley, so every comma matches the spec. Free for students, no sign-up to try.
What The Journal of Neuroscience reference looks like
The Journal of Neuroscience is an author-date style: the in-text citation gives the author surname and year in parentheses.
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Journal article
Babonis LS, Martindale MQ (2022) A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS 119:e2113701119.
Book
Kuhn TS (1970) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press.
Web page
IPCC (2021) Climate change 2021: the physical science basis. Available at: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/ [Accessed July 15, 2026].
In-text citation
(Babonis and Martindale, 2022)
Journal article with 26 authors
Harris CR et al. (2020) Array programming with NumPy. Nature 585:357–362.
The Journal of Neuroscience at a glance
Read from the style file and checked against the examples above.
- Used mainly in medicine.
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names only the first author and shortens the rest.
- In the text, the same paper becomes (Harris et al., 2020).
- First names are shortened to initials.
- The reference leaves the DOI out.
- Web pages include the date you accessed them.
- The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author.
- The reference list uses a hanging indent.
- The style file was last updated in September 2012.
The guide this style follows: jneurosci.org
How The Journal of Neuroscience compares with NLM/Vancouver: Citing Medicine 2nd edition (name-year)
Where The Journal of Neuroscience differs:
- For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names only the first author and shortens the rest.
- The reference leaves the DOI out.
- In the text it writes (Babonis and Martindale, 2022) where NLM/Vancouver: Citing Medicine 2nd edition (name-year) writes (Babonis, and Martindale 2022).
The same journal article in NLM/Vancouver: Citing Medicine 2nd edition (name-year)
Babonis LS, Martindale MQ. A novel regulatory gene network in cnidarians. PNAS. 2022 May 3;119(19):e2113701119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2113701119
Frequently asked questions
How many authors does The Journal of Neuroscience list?
For a paper with 26 authors, the reference list names only the first author and shortens the rest. In the text, the same paper becomes (Harris et al., 2020).
How does The Journal of Neuroscience handle DOIs and web pages?
The reference leaves the DOI out. Web pages include the date you accessed them.
How is the reference list ordered in The Journal of Neuroscience?
The reference list is sorted alphabetically by author. The reference list uses a hanging indent.
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