How to format your references using the Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging. 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	Download the output style file
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

Shell KM. Climate change. Constraining cloud feedbacks. Science (2012); 338: 755–756.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwabe RF, Wang TC. Cancer. Bacteria deliver a genotoxic hit. Science (2012); 338: 52–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fortes AD, Suard E, Knight KS. Negative linear compressibility and massive anisotropic thermal expansion in methanol monohydrate. Science (2011); 331: 742–746.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nishio J, Gaglia JL, Turvey SE, et al. Islet recovery and reversal of murine type 1 diabetes in the absence of any infused spleen cell contribution. Science (2006); 311: 1775–1778.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pesavento L, Smoleny S. A Trader’s Guide to Financial Astrology. 2015. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Vinh PC, Hung NM, Tung NT, et al., editors. Context-Aware Systems and Applications: First International Conference, ICCASA 2012, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, November 26-27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. 2013. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chyba M, Haberkorn T, Jedicke R. Minimum Fuel Round Trip from a $L_2 L 2 Earth-Moon Halo Orbit to Asteroid 2006 RH $_{120}$$ 120. In: Recent Advances in Celestial and Space Mechanics (eds. Bonnard B., Chyba M.) (2016); pp. 117–142. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Physiology and Functional Imaging.

Blog post

Andrew E. Parts Of Southern Africa Are Within Tantalising Reach Of Eliminating Malaria. IFLScience. 2015. IFLScience.

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. Highway Trust Fund: Financial Condition as of September 30, 1997. 1998 Apr. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.Report No.: RCED-98-171R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Primeaux SJ. The Role of Education, Empathy, and Psychological Flexibility in Implicit and Explicit Mental Health Stigma [Doctoral dissertation]. 2014. University of Louisiana, [ Lafayette, LA].

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

Schilling MK. Simply Grand. New York Times (2016);M2218.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shell 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Schwabe and Wang 2012, Shell 2012).

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

Two authors: (Schwabe and Wang 2012)
Three or more authors: (Nishio et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging
ISSN (print)	1475-0961
ISSN (online)	1475-097X
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