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]

Braxton JM. Education: Make mentorship matter. Nature 2012;487:165–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Levine M, Tjian R. Transcription regulation and animal diversity. Nature 2003;424:147–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Goldblatt C, Lenton TM, Watson AJ. Bistability of atmospheric oxygen and the Great Oxidation. Nature 2006;443:683–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Mangan PR, Harrington LE, O’Quinn DB, Helms WS, Bullard DC, Elson CO, et al. Transforming growth factor-beta induces development of the T(H)17 lineage. Nature 2006;441:231–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Melville A. Political Atlas of the Modern World. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Bhushan B, editor. Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology. 2nd revised and extended edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Belleannée C, Sallou O, Nicolas J. Logol: Expressive Pattern Matching in Sequences. Application to Ribosomal Frameshift Modeling. In: Comin M, Käll L, Marchiori E, Ngom A, Rajapakse J, editors. Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics: 9th IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, August 21-23, 2014. Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 34–47.

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]

Luntz S. Success Against Most Common Form Of Cystic Fibrosis. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/success-against-most-common-form-cystic-fibrosis/ (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. [Comments on Applicability of Vacancies Act to Various Labor and Education Officers]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Harris R. Stone circles and sandplay therapy: The language of symbols. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2011.

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]

de la MERCED MJ. Slow Trading Fails to Dent Strong Results for Banks. New York Times 2017:B3.

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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