How to format your references using the Clinical Neurophysiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Neurophysiology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Quinlan RA. DRUG DISCOVERY. A new dawn for cataracts. Science 2015;350:636–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vidale JE, Li Y-G. Damage to the shallow Landers fault from the nearby Hector Mine earthquake. Nature 2003;421:524–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim SW, Shimoyama T, Hosono H. Solvated electrons in high-temperature melts and glasses of the room-temperature stable electride [Ca₂₄Al₂₈O₆₄]⁴⁺·4e⁻. Science 2011;333:71–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Calo E, Gu B, Bowen ME, Aryan F, Zalc A, Liang J, et al. Tissue-selective effects of nucleolar stress and rDNA damage in developmental disorders. Nature 2018;554:112–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pearce R, Barnes S. Raising Venture Capital. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Jiao X, Weill J-C, editors. Proceedings of the 21st International Meshing Roundtable. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Partap S, Fisher PG. Embryonal Tumors. In: Gupta N, Banerjee A, Haas-Kogan D, editors. Pediatric CNS Tumors, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 89–114.

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 Clinical Neurophysiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Touch Is The Sense We Understand The Least – But Maybe Not For Much Longer. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/touch-sense-we-understand-least-maybe-not-much-longer/ (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

Government Accountability Office. Aviation Security: Vulnerabilities Still Exist in the Aviation Security System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Volle M. Exploring the relationship of meetings to organizational culture and values. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 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

Vecsey G. Truth Lurks In Spoof Of Singletary. New York Times 2010:B8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Quinlan, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Quinlan, 2015; Vidale and Li, 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Vidale and Li, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Calo et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clinical Neurophysiology
Abbreviation	Clin. Neurophysiol.
ISSN (print)	1388-2457
Scope	Clinical Neurology Physiology (medical) Neurology Sensory Systems