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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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. Zimmer C. EVOLUTION: Parasites Make Scaredy-Rats Foolhardy. Science. 2000;289:525b–7b.
A journal article with 2 authors
1. Liberman N, Trope Y. The psychology of transcending the here and now. Science. 2008;322:1201–5.
A journal article with 3 authors
1. Yu DYW, Hoster HE, Batabyal SK. Bulk antimony sulfide with excellent cycle stability as next-generation anode for lithium-ion batteries. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4562.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
1. Hou Y, Du X, Scheiner S, McMeekin DP, Wang Z, Li N, et al. A generic interface to reduce the efficiency-stability-cost gap of perovskite solar cells. Science. 2017;358:1192–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1. Nash CE. The History of Aquaculture. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.
An edited book
1. Koch-Nolte F, editor. Endogenous ADP-Ribosylation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.
A chapter in an edited book
1. Quan V, Rogers S. A Supply Network of Oligopoly for the Advanced Intelligent Network. In: Raghavan S, Anandalingam G, editors. Telecommunications Planning: Innovations in Pricing, Network Design and Management. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006. p. 65–87.

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 D. Chew On This: We Finally Know How Our Jaws Evolved [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chew-on-this-we-finally-know-how-our-jaws-evolveded/

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. International Aviation: Measures by European Community Could Limit U.S. Airlines’ Ability to Compete Abroad. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Apr. Report No.: RCED-93-64.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1. Phelps-Hillen JL. Institutional Review Boards and Writing Studies Research: A Justice-Oriented Study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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. Poniewozik J. Rich, and a Jerk, but Then, Wait for It . . . New York Times. 2017 Sep 29;C7.

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 titleNeuropsychiatric Electrophysiology
AbbreviationNeuropsychiatr. Electrophysiol.
ISSN (online)2055-4788
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