How to format your references using the Neurophysiologie Clinique / Clinical Neurophysiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurophysiologie Clinique / Clinical Neurophysiology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

Lay T. Seismology: Why giant earthquakes keep catching us out. Nature 2012;483:149–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bringmann H, Hyman AA. A cytokinesis furrow is positioned by two consecutive signals. Nature 2005;436:731–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hochberg YV, Serrano C, Ziedonis R. ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Intangible but bankable. Science 2015;348:1202.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lou K, Qian S-X, Ren Z-C, Tu C, Li Y, Wang H-T. Femtosecond laser processing by using patterned vector optical fields. Sci Rep 2013;3:2281.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sahalos JN. Orthogonal Methods for Array Synthesis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Antoniou G, Grobelnik M, Simperl E, Parsia B, Plexousakis D, Leenheer PD, et al., editors. The Semanic Web: Research and Applications: 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2011, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 – June 2, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. vol. 6644. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zielinski A, Simon C, Wittl T. Morphisto: Service-Oriented Open Source Morphology for German. In: Mahlow C, Piotrowski M, editors. State of the Art in Computational Morphology: Workshop on Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology, SFCM 2009, Zurich, Switzerland, September 4, 2009. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 64–75.

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 / Clinical Neurophysiology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Io’s Entire Atmosphere Collapses Whenever It Hides In Jupiter’s Shadow. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ios-entire-atmosphere-collapses-whenever-hides-jupiters-shadow/ (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. Strategic Sourcing: Opportunities Exist to Better Manage Information Technology Services Spending. 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]

Policarpio AM. Interventions for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, typically developing siblings, and parents: A systematic review of the literature. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

Koblin J. Nielsen Tackles a Mystery: Netflix Ratings. New York Times 2017:B2.

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