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

Kondro W. RESEARCH COSTS: Canada to Begin Funding Overhead on Projects. Science. 2000;290(5492):687a.

A journal article with 2 authors

McMichael AJ, Jones EY. Genetics. First-class control of HIV-1. Science. 2010;330(6010):1488–1490.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heuberger M, Zäch M, Spencer ND. Density fluctuations under confinement: when is a fluid not a fluid? Science. 2001;292(5518):905–908.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pellegrini AFA, Ahlström A, Hobbie SE, et al. Fire frequency drives decadal changes in soil carbon and nitrogen and ecosystem productivity. Nature. 2018;553(7687):194–198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matloff R, Chaillou JH. Nonprofit Investment and Development Solutions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Greene FL, Komorowski AL, editors. Clinical Approach to Well-differentiated Thyroid Cancers. New Delhi: Springer India; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Masoni M, Guelfi MR, Shtylla J. Computer mediated communication. In: Guelfi MR, Masoni M, Conti A, Gensini GF, editors. E-learning in sanità: Progettare, produrre ed erogare corsi di formazione online per l’area sanitaria. Milano: Springer; 2011: 17–22.

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

Davis J. US National Security Could Be Severely Affected By Climate Change Over The Next 20 Years. September 22, 2016. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/us-national-security-could-be-severely-affected-by-climate-change-over-the-next-20-years/. 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. Administration of Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1969.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beck NA. Mobile Apps for Cognitive Restructuring: A Review and Comparative Analysis. 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. Long Security Lines Surprise Fans. New York Times2013;B11.

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