How to format your references using the Neurophysiologie Clinique citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neurophysiologie Clinique. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Jacob NP. IBI* series winner. Investigating Arabia Mountain: a molecular approach. Science 2012;335:1588–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Crandall KA, Buhay JE. Evolution. Genomic databases and the tree of life. Science 2004;306:1144–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ting JPY, Duncan JA, Lei Y. How the noninflammasome NLRs function in the innate immune system. Science 2010;327:286–90.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang Y-N, Hou Y-Y, Sun M-Z, Zhang C-Y, Bai G, Zhao X, et al. Behavioural screening of zebrafish using neuroactive traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions and biological targets. Sci Rep 2014;4:5311.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Charalambides CA. Combinatorial Methods in Discrete Distributions: Charalambides/Combinatorial. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Antontsev S. Evolution PDEs with Nonstandard Growth Conditions: Existence, Uniqueness, Localization, Blow-up. vol. 4. Paris: Atlantis Press; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Biasotti S, Attali D, Boissonnat J-D, Edelsbrunner H, Elber G, Mortara M, et al. Skeletal Structures. In: Floriani LD, Spagnuolo M, editors. Shape Analysis and Structuring, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 145–83.

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 Neurophysiologie Clinique.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Chinese Scientists Look Set To Start First Human Trails Of CRISPR Next Month. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/chinese-scientists-look-set-to-start-first-human-trails-of-crispr-next-month/ (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. FAA Facilities: Improved Condition Assessment Methods Could Better Inform Maintenance Decisions and Capital- Planning Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Spowart SA. Long-Term Mindfulness Meditation: Anxiety, Depression, Stress and Pain, Is There A Connection For Public Health? Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2014.

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]

Billard M. Saving the World. Smelling Good, Too. New York Times 2010:E6.

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	Neurophysiologie Clinique
Abbreviation	Neurophysiol. Clin.
ISSN (print)	0987-7053
Scope	General Medicine Clinical Neurology Physiology (medical) Neurology