I would recommend: Rivals, I., & Personnaz, L. (2003). Neural-network construction and selection in nonlinear modeling. Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on, 14(4), 804-819.

It takes into account not just the neural network setup but hypothesis testing and cross validation along with the neural network as a system for effective non linear modeling. I would also use this paper as seed to find more papers on the subject.

Hope this helps