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]

Stanley M. Perspective: Vaccinate boys too. Nature 2012;488:S10.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Smith MTJ, Rubinstein JL. Structural biology. Beyond blob-ology. Science 2014;345:617–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Liu WW, Mazor O, Wilson RI. Thermosensory processing in the Drosophila brain. Nature 2015;519:353–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

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Jost JD, Home JP, Amini JM, Hanneke D, Ozeri R, Langer C, et al. Entangled mechanical oscillators. Nature 2009;459:683–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Reinhardt H-W. Ingenieurbaustoffe. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2010.

An edited book

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Maroldi R, Nicolai P, editors. Imaging in Treatment Planning for Sinonasal Diseases. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

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Arrigo A-P. Anti-apoptotic, Tumorigenic and Metastatic Potential of Hsp27 (HspB1) and αB-crystallin (HspB5): Emerging Targets for the Development of New Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Strategies. In: Calderwood SK, Sherman MY, Ciocca DR, editors. Heat Shock Proteins in Cancer, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007, p. 73–92.

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

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Andrew E. How Neurosurgeons Can Now Look At Your Brain Through Your Eyes. 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. Contracts To Provide Support for the Food Service Inspection Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Lizarraga D. Effects of large inedible particles on the feeding performance of echinodem larvae. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

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Lyman R. Polish President Offers Plan to End Court Crisis, but the Response Is Tepid. New York Times 2017:A8.

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