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]

Smaglik P. Demographic shifts. Nature 2001;414:3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gonnermann HM, Manga M. Explosive volcanism may not be an inevitable consequence of magma fragmentation. Nature 2003;426:432–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Meloso D, Copic J, Bossaerts P. Promoting intellectual discovery: patents versus markets. Science 2009;323:1335–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lilburn TG, Kim KS, Ostrom NE, Byzek KR, Leadbetter JR, Breznak JA. Nitrogen fixation by symbiotic and free-living spirochetes. Science 2001;292:2495–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Morris SA. Food and Package Engineering. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Geddes CD, Lakowicz JR, editors. Reviews in Fluorescence 2006. vol. 2006. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cory CA. New Visualization Techniques in AEC-BIM More than Modeling. In: Cocchiarella L, editor. The Visual Language of Technique: Volume 2 - Heritage and Expectations in Research, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 49–64.

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]

Andrew E. New Horizons Finally Gets Up Close With Pluto – For 15 Minutes. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-finally-gets-close-pluto-15-minutes/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Older Adults: Federal Strategy Needed to Help Ensure Efficient and Effective Delivery of Home and Community-Based Services and Supports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ismail A-R. Assessing the relationship between the Internet, radio frequency identifier (RFID), and information technology (IT) flexibility: A correlational study and findings. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2009.

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]

Kelly C. Instant Fortunes, and Sudden Headaches. New York Times 2007: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