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. Gavrilets S. Rapid evolution of reproductive barriers driven by sexual conflict. Nature. 2000;403:886–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sedlak DL, von Gunten U. Chemistry. The chlorine dilemma. Science. 2011;331:42–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wood BJ, Halliday AN, Rehkämper M. Volatile accretion history of the Earth. Nature. 2010;467:E6-7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Alexander DM, Smail I, Bauer FE, Chapman SC, Blain AW, Brandt WN, et al. Rapid growth of black holes in massive star-forming galaxies. Nature. 2005;434:738–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Pines JM, Carpenter CR, Raja AS, Schuur JD. Evidence-Based Emergency Care. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Beese AM, Zehnder AT, Xia S, editors. Fracture, Fatigue, Failure and Damage Evolution, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Zahiri S-H, Seyedin S-A. Using Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization for Designing Novel Classifiers. In: Coello CAC, Dehuri S, Ghosh S, editors. Swarm Intelligence for Multi-objective Problems in Data Mining. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 65–92.

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 Neuropsychiatric Electrophysiology.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Milky Way’s Black Hole Is Unusually “Chatty” [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/milky-ways-black-hole-unusually-chatty-author-amy-lynn/

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. Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s Fiscal Year 1999 and 1998 Financial Statements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Oct. Report No.: GAO-01-41.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Krishna S. Pediatric Pal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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

1. Wilson M. A Manhunt That Began on Mulberry Street Ends in Florida. New York Times. 2017 Sep 13;A23.

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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