How to format your references using the Pratique Neurologique - FMC citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pratique Neurologique - FMC. 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]

Jayaraman KS. Biotech boom. Nature 2005;436:480–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lindvall O, Hyun I. Medical innovation versus stem cell tourism. Science 2009;324:1664–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Friedmann T, Rabin O, Frankel MS. Ethics. Gene doping and sport. Science 2010;327:647–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yusa K, Rashid ST, Strick-Marchand H, Varela I, Liu P-Q, Paschon DE, et al. Targeted gene correction of α1-antitrypsin deficiency in induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature 2011;478:391–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Eklund C, Marks RB, Ponnuswamy S, Stanwood KL, van Waes NJM. WirelessMAN®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Nicola UD. La protesi di ginocchio di primo impianto. Milano: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fang AC, Cao J. Part-of-Speech Tags and ICE Text Classification. In: Cao J, editor. Text Genres and Registers: The Computation of Linguistic Features, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 71–82.

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 Pratique Neurologique - FMC.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Coconut Crabs Can Pinch With More Force Than Most Animals Can Bite. 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. The School Dropout Problem. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Taylor MS. Too Close to the Knives: Children’s Rights, Parental Authority, and Best Interests in the Context of Elective Pediatric Surgeries. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2015.

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]

Crow K. You Talkin’ to Me? Less and Less These Days. New York Times 2003:146.

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	Pratique Neurologique - FMC
ISSN (print)	1878-7762
Scope	Clinical Neurology