How to format your references using the Neurophysiologie Clinique citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurophysiologie Clinique. 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

[1]

Ziemelis K. Hydrocarbon reservoirs. Nature 2003;426:317.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lahn BT, Ebenstein L. Let’s celebrate human genetic diversity. Nature 2009;461:726–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chandra FA, Buzi G, Doyle JC. Glycolytic oscillations and limits on robust efficiency. Science 2011;333:187–92.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pupo G, Ibba F, Ascough DMH, Vicini AC, Ricci P, Christensen KE, et al. Asymmetric nucleophilic fluorination under hydrogen bonding phase-transfer catalysis. Science 2018;360:638–42.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cannon DL. CISA®. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Kielanowski P, Ali ST, Bieliavsky P, Odzijewicz A, Schlichenmaier M, Voronov T, editors. Geometric Methods in Physics: XXXIV Workshop, Białowieża, Poland, June 28 – July 4, 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hyerle D. Thinking Maps®: A Visual Language for Learning. In: Okada A, Shum SB, Sherborne T, editors. Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques, London: Springer; 2008, p. 73–88.

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 Neurophysiologie Clinique.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. Stephen Hawking’s Interstellar Mission To Alpha Centauri Gets Help From NASA To Deal With Radiation. IFLScience 2016.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Implementation of the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Coulibaly I. Influence of Gender and Age on the Performance of a PBIS program: Quantitative Analysis of Secondary Data from a Midwestern Suburban Public Middle School. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, 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

[1]

Sisario B. Keeping the Dream Kickin’. New York Times 2017:C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Neurophysiologie Clinique
Abbreviation	Neurophysiol. Clin.
ISSN (print)	0987-7053
Scope	General Medicine Clinical Neurology Physiology (medical) Neurology