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

Berner, R.A., 2003. The long-term carbon cycle, fossil fuels and atmospheric composition. Nature 426, 323–326.

A journal article with 2 authors

Johnston, R.J., Jr, Desplan, C., 2014. Interchromosomal communication coordinates intrinsically stochastic expression between alleles. Science 343, 661–665.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith, F.G., Davies, R., Lyne, A., 2012. Bernard Lovell (1913-2012). Nature 488, 592.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Goldstone, D.C., Ennis-Adeniran, V., Hedden, J.J., Groom, H.C.T., Rice, G.I., Christodoulou, E., Walker, P.A., Kelly, G., Haire, L.F., Yap, M.W., de Carvalho, L.P.S., Stoye, J.P., Crow, Y.J., Taylor, I.A., Webb, M., 2011. HIV-1 restriction factor SAMHD1 is a deoxynucleoside triphosphate triphosphohydrolase. Nature 480, 379–382.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, S.M., 2009. Controllership. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Holodynski, M., 2005. Development of Emotions and Their Regulation: An Internalization Model, Kluwer International Series in Outreach Scholarship. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Ceccherini Nelli, L., 2016. Photovoltaic-Integrated Buildings in Florence and Lucca, Italy: Case Studies, in: Sayigh, A. (Ed.), Renewable Energy in the Service of Mankind Vol II: Selected Topics from the World Renewable Energy Congress WREC 2014. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 43–56.

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

Fang, J., 2014. This Star is About to Swallow Two Planets [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2011. DOD Education Benefits: Increased Oversight of Tuition Assistance Program Is Needed (No. GAO-11-300). 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

Milliken, D.E., 2012. Blood pressure measurement in the primary care provider setting: A project evaluating the blood pressure technique of nursing staff (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Soble, J., 2017. Bankruptcy Of Takata May Ripple For Years. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Berner, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Berner, 2003; Johnston and Desplan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Johnston and Desplan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Goldstone et al., 2011)

About the journal

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