How to format your references using the Clinical Neurophysiology Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Neurophysiology Practice. 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

Nutt, D., 2014. Help luck along to find psychiatric medicines. Nature 515, 165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ranen, M.C., Jacobsen, S.B., 2006. Barium isotopes in chondritic meteorites: implications for planetary reservoir models. Science 314, 809–812.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roopnarine, P.D., Angielczyk, K.D., Hertog, R., 2006. Comment on “Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates.” Science 314, 925; author reply 925.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sarkar, I., Hauber, I., Hauber, J., Buchholz, F., 2007. HIV-1 proviral DNA excision using an evolved recombinase. Science 316, 1912–1915.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shelby, A.M., McKune, C.M., 2014. Small Animal Anesthesia Techniques. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

FitzGerald, D.M., Knight, J. (Eds.), 2005. High Resolution Morphodynamics and Sedimentary Evolution of Estuaries, Coastal Systems and Continental Margins. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Tootooni, M.S., Fan, M., Sivasubramony, R.S., Chou, C.-A., Miskovic, V., Rao, P.K., 2016. Graph Theoretic Compressive Sensing Approach for Classification of Global Neurophysiological States from Electroencephalography (EEG) Signals, in: Ascoli, G.A., Hawrylycz, M., Ali, H., Khazanchi, D., Shi, Y. (Eds.), Brain Informatics and Health: International Conference, BIH 2016, Omaha, NE, USA, October 13-16, 2016 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 42–51.

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 Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. What’s Causing This Mysterious Sleeping Sickness In A Village In Kazakhstan? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mystery-village-s-sleeping-sickness-may-have-been-solved/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Establishment of a Central Focal Point for Telecommunications Matters (No. B-131935). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rodriguez, J.M., 2008. Navy Supply Corps officer’s perspective on effective leadership (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Feeney, K., 2005. QUICK BITE: Cranford; Cranford Didn’t Get the Olympics, Either. New York Times 14NJ13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nutt, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Nutt, 2014; Ranen and Jacobsen, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Ranen and Jacobsen, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Sarkar et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clinical Neurophysiology Practice
Abbreviation	Clin. Neurophysiol. Pract.
ISSN (print)	2467-981X
Scope	Clinical Neurology Physiology (medical) Neurology