How to format your references using the Clinical Neurophysiology Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Neurophysiology Practice. 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

Wunsch, C., 2002. Oceanography. What is the thermohaline circulation? Science 298, 1179–1181.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leonhardt, U., Tyc, T., 2009. Broadband invisibility by non-Euclidean cloaking. Science 323, 110–112.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bigelow, M.S., Lepeshkin, N.N., Boyd, R.W., 2003. Superluminal and slow light propagation in a room-temperature solid. Science 301, 200–202.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Parker, J.G., Marshall, J.D., Ahanonu, B., Wu, Y.-W., Kim, T.H., Grewe, B.F., Zhang, Y., Li, J.Z., Ding, J.B., Ehlers, M.D., Schnitzer, M.J., 2018. Diametric neural ensemble dynamics in parkinsonian and dyskinetic states. Nature 557, 177–182.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ganda, K.M., 2013. Dentist’s Guide to Medical Conditions, Medications, and Complications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Milano, M. (Ed.), 2012. Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming: 18th International Conference, CP 2012, Québec City, QC, Canada, October 8-12, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhong, Y., 2010. Gastric Cancer, in: Alaoui-Jamali, M. (Ed.), Alternative and Complementary Therapies for Cancer: Integrative Approaches and Discovery of Conventional Drugs. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 105–133.

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 Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Researchers Find Association Between Porn Viewing And Less Grey Matter In The Brain [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2003. Aviation Safety: Advancements Being Pursued to Improve Airliner Cabin Occupant Safety and Health (No. GAO-04-33). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

He, H., 2006. Numerical Simulations of Unsteady Flows in a Pulse Detonation Engine by the Space-Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Kwai, I., 2017. Protests Over Punishment For Killing Aboriginal Teen. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wunsch, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Leonhardt and Tyc, 2009; Wunsch, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Leonhardt and Tyc, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Parker et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clinical Neurophysiology Practice
Abbreviation	Clin. Neurophysiol. Pract.
ISSN (print)	2467-981X
Scope	Clinical Neurology Physiology (medical) Neurology