How to format your references using the Clinical Neurophysiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Neurophysiology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Conard NJ. A female figurine from the basal Aurignacian of Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany. Nature 2009;459:248–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Howard J, Hyman AA. Dynamics and mechanics of the microtubule plus end. Nature 2003;422:753–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cook-Deegan R, Chandrasekharan S, Angrist M. The dangers of diagnostic monopolies. Nature 2009;458:405–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee Y-J, Kim D, Lee K, Chun J-Y. Single-channel multiplexing without melting curve analysis in real-time PCR. Sci Rep 2014;4:7439.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang S-L. Raman Spectroscopy and its Application in Nanostructures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Katsikides S, Koktsidis PI, editors. Societies in Transition: Economic, Political and Security Transformations in Contemporary Europe. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Edelman PH. Minimum Total Deviation Apportionments. In: Simeone B, Pukelsheim F, editors. Mathematics and Democracy: Recent Advances in Voting Systems and Collective Choice, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 55–64.

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 Clinical Neurophysiology.

Blog post

Luntz S. Thousands Mourn Death Of Wombat Who Lived For Cuddles. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/thousands-mourn-death-of-wombat-who-lived-for-cuddles/ (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. International Space Station: Significant Challenges May Limit Onboard Research. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Janpengpen A. Monitoring and forecasting biosolids odors at prior lime and post lime addition in wastewater treatment plants. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2010.

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

Kelly Beatty J, Special to The New. EARLY DATA ARRIVE FROM PROBE ON VENUS. New York Times 1985:C8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Conard, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Conard, 2009; Howard and Hyman, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Howard and Hyman, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clinical Neurophysiology
Abbreviation	Clin. Neurophysiol.
ISSN (print)	1388-2457
Scope	Clinical Neurology Physiology (medical) Neurology Sensory Systems