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]

Desiraju GR. In search of clarity. Nature 2003;423:485.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Burdyga T, Wray S. Action potential refractory period in ureter smooth muscle is set by Ca sparks and BK channels. Nature 2005;436:559–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gong M, Kirkeminde A, Ren S. Symmetry-defying iron pyrite (FeS₂) nanocrystals through oriented attachment. Sci Rep 2013;3:2092.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lin S-K, Yeh C-K, Xie W, Liu Y-C, Yoshimura M. Ab initio-aided CALPHAD thermodynamic modeling of the Sn-Pb binary system under current stressing. Sci Rep 2013;3:2731.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Arifin SMN, Madey GR, Collins FH. Spatial Agent-Based Simulation Modeling in Public Health. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Tang H. Quantitative Remote Sensing in Thermal Infrared: Theory and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lucas JC, Schroeder D, Chennells R, Chaturvedi S, Feinholz D. Sharing Traditional Knowledge: Who benefits? Cases from India, Nigeria, Mexico and South Africa. In: Schroeder D, Cook Lucas J, editors. Benefit Sharing: From Biodiversity to Human Genetics, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013, p. 65–93.

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]

Taub B. New Research Reveals How Neurons “Grab” Memories. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-research-reveals-how-neurons-grab-memories/ (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. Examination of the Social Security Administration’s Systems Modernization Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Felsburg DF. The business of evangelism: A phenomenological study of frustration and attrition among Christian evangelists. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2008.

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]

James M. Five or Six Things I Didn’t Know About Brad Pitt. New York Times 2016:M2128.

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

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