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]

Winnacker E-L. European science. Science 2002;295:446.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Einum S, Fleming IA. Highly fecund mothers sacrifice offspring survival to maximize fitness. Nature 2000;405:565–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Murtagh GJ, Dyer PS, Crittenden PD. Sex and the single lichen. Nature 2000;404:564.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ye D, Zheng G, Wang J, Wang Z, Qiao S, Huangfu J, et al. Negative group velocity in the absence of absorption resonance. Sci Rep 2013;3:1628.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Seagal ZM, Surnina OM. Ultrasonic Topographical and Pathotopographical Anatomy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Aidoo L, Silva DF, editors. Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dick J. On Quasi-Monte Carlo Rules Achieving Higher Order Convergence. In: L’ Ecuyer P, Owen AB, editors. Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods 2008, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 73–96.

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]

Andrew E. Mars Coming Into Opposition. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mars-coming-opposition/ (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. Motor Carrier Safety: Improvements to Data-Driven Oversight Could Better Target High Risk Carriers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Annan F. Spatial pattern of yield distributions: implications for crop insurance. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, 2012.

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]

Dominus S. In and Out of the Spotlight, a Mother-Daughter Act for the Ages. New York Times 2016:A13.

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

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