How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology (JCNP). 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

Zaanen J. High-temperature superconductivity. Stripes defeat the Fermi liquid. Nature. 2000;404(6779):714–715.

A journal article with 2 authors

Droser ML, Gehling JG. Paleontology. Old and groovy. Science. 2012;336(6089):1646–1647.

A journal article with 3 authors

McGuire SE, Le PT, Davis RL. The role of Drosophila mushroom body signaling in olfactory memory. Science. 2001;293(5533):1330–1333.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Newton PK, Mason J, Hurt B, et al. Entropy, complexity, and Markov diagrams for random walk cancer models. 2014 December 19 Epub.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Connor K, Aardema F, Pélissier M-C. Beyond Reasonable Doubt. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Antoniou G, Grobelnik M, Simperl E, et al., editors. The Semanic Web: Research and Applications: 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 – June 2, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Otto C, Holz M, Barth G. Production of Organic Acids by Yarrowia lipolytica. In: Barth G, editor. Yarrowia lipolytica: Biotechnological Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013: 137–149.

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 Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology.

Blog post

Hale T. “Exercise In A Pill” Makes Mice Run For 70 Percent Longer. May 4, 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/exercise-in-a-pill-makes-mice-run-for-70-percent-longer/. 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. Privatization of Federal Aviation Administration Functions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Selby C. With|out. 2015;

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

Cooper M. Upheaval At Bach Festival. New York Times2017;C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Neurophysiol.
ISSN (print)	0736-0258
ISSN (online)	1537-1603
Scope	Physiology Clinical Neurology Physiology (medical) Neurology