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]

Batygin K. A primordial origin for misalignments between stellar spin axes and planetary orbits. Nature 2012;491:418–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Nair G, Raj A. Molecular biology. Time-lapse transcription. Science 2011;332:431–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Weng L, Menczer F, Ahn Y-Y. Virality prediction and community structure in social networks. Sci Rep 2013;3:2522.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Won S, Saun S-B, Lee S, Lee S, Kim K, Han Y. NMR spectroscopy for thin films by magnetic resonance force microscopy. Sci Rep 2013;3:3189.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cheng VS, Tong JC. Building Sustainability in East Asia. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Brodt P, editor. Liver Metastasis: Biology and Clinical Management. vol. 16. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kreuzer M, Robbiano L. Computing Primary and Maximal Components. In: Robbiano L, editor. Computational Linear and Commutative Algebra, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 185–242.

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

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Andrew D. Photographer Captures Bee Peeing Mid-Flight. IFLScience 2015.

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. Mass Transit: Historical Patterns and Future Outlook. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hardison A. Achieving Literacy Excellence through Identifying and Utilizing High Yield Strategies. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine 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]

Dynarski S. Make Everyone Take the SAT or ACT. And Make It Free. New York Times 2017:BU3.

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