How to format your references using the Neuropsychiatric Electrophysiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neuropsychiatric Electrophysiology. 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. Freeman MR. Specification and morphogenesis of astrocytes. Science. 2010;330:774–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Fainman Y, Porter G. Applied physics. Directing data center traffic. Science. 2013;342:202–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Reznick DN, Mateos M, Springer MS. Independent origins and rapid evolution of the placenta in the fish genus Poeciliopsis. Science. 2002;298:1018–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mackler JM, Drummond JA, Loewen CA, Robinson IM, Reist NE. The C(2)B Ca(2+)-binding motif of synaptotagmin is required for synaptic transmission in vivo. Nature. 2002;418:340–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Baker HK, Martin GS. Capital Structure and Corporate Financing Decisions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Beckouche P, Besnard P, Pecout H, editors. Atlas of Challenges and Opportunities in European Neighbourhoods. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Rosenberg Z, Dekel E. Plate Perforation. In: Dekel E, editor. Terminal Ballistics. Singapore: Springer; 2016. p. 125–82.

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 Neuropsychiatric Electrophysiology.

Blog post

1. Hamilton K. Why Understanding Native American Religion Is Important For Resolving The Dakota Access Pipeline Crisis. IFLScience. 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. No Child Left Behind Act: Additional Assistance and Research on Effective Strategies Would Help Small Rural Districts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Sep. Report No.: GAO-04-909.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Green DJ. Shoulder functional anatomy and development – Implications for interpreting early hominin locomotion [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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. Schwartz J, Robertson C. New Orleans Looks to Houston, and Sees Itself. New York Times. 2017 Aug 29;A14.

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	Neuropsychiatric Electrophysiology
Abbreviation	Neuropsychiatr. Electrophysiol.
ISSN (online)	2055-4788
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