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]

Rolison DR. Catalytic nanoarchitectures--the importance of nothing and the unimportance of periodicity. Science 2003;299:1698–701.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Crain JN, Pierce DT. End states in one-dimensional atom chains. Science 2005;307:703–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yano J-I, Talagrand O, Drossart P. Outer planets: Origins of atmospheric zonal winds. Nature 2003;421:36.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chen X, Schauder S, Potier N, Van Dorsselaer A, Pelczer I, Bassler BL, et al. Structural identification of a bacterial quorum-sensing signal containing boron. Nature 2002;415:545–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Casadella V, Liu Z, Uzunidis D. Innovation Capabilities and Economic Development in Open Economies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Saharan V. Chitosan Based Nanomaterials in Plant Growth and Protection. New Delhi: Springer India; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shi M, Zhang C, Xie Y, Xu D. Stereoselective inclusion mechanism of ketoprofen into β -cyclodextrin: insights from molecular dynamics simulations and free energy calculations. In: Guo H, Xie D, Yang W, editors. Guosen Yan: A Festschrift from Theoretical Chemistry Accounts, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 29–40.

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]

Hamilton K. Fentanyl: Widely Used, Deadly When Abused. 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. Perkins Student Loans: Need for Better Controls Over Loans Recovered From Closed Schools. 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]

Slabaugh JL. The Occurrence of Alternans and Arrhythmias in a Multicellular, Cardiac Preparation. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2012.

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]

Rothenberg B. It’s Jelena Ostapenko on Her ID, and Alona to Those in the Know. New York Times 2017:SP7.

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

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