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

Falkowski P. Ocean Science: The power of plankton. Nature. 2012 Feb 29;483(7387):S17-20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bokov K, Steinberg SV. A hierarchical model for evolution of 23S ribosomal RNA. Nature. 2009 Feb 19;457(7232):977–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moore JD, Kirk JA, Hunt T. Unmasking the S-phase-promoting potential of cyclin B1. Science. 2003 May 9;300(5621):987–90.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zarenia M, Perali A, Neilson D, Peeters FM. Enhancement of electron-hole superfluidity in double few-layer graphene. Sci Rep. 2014 Dec 8;4:7319.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shook JR. The God Debates. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Wheeler DS, Wong HR, Shanley TP, editors. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Volume 3: Gastroenterological, Endocrine, Renal, Hematologic, Oncologic and Immune Systems. 2nd ed. 2014. London: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Parra A, Mendes JR, Valero P, Villavicencio Ubillús M. Mathematics Education in Multilingual Contexts for the Indigenous Population in Latin America. In: Barwell R, Clarkson P, Halai A, Kazima M, Moschkovich J, Planas N, et al., editors. Mathematics Education and Language Diversity: The 21st ICMI Study. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 67–84. (New ICMI Study Series).

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

Davis J. China To Ban All Trade In Ivory By End Of 2017 [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/china-to-ban-all-trade-in-ivory-by-end-of-2017/

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. Aviation Safety: Weaknesses in Inspection and Enforcement Limit FAA in Identifying and Responding to Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Feb. Report No.: RCED-98-6.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nguyen LL. Pacific Psychiatric Group: A Business Plan For a Direct Pay Outpatient Psychiatric Practice [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Pilon M. Britain Adds Olympian. New York Times. 2012 Jun 12;B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Falkowski 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bokov and Steinberg 2009; Falkowski 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bokov and Steinberg 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zarenia 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

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