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 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]

Lin H. Information technology. Technology’s limited role in resolving debates over digital surveillance. Science 2014;345:728–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brochier C, Philippe H. Phylogeny: a non-hyperthermophilic ancestor for bacteria. Nature 2002;417:244.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Plaks V, Koopman CD, Werb Z. Cancer. Circulating tumor cells. Science 2013;341:1186–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Xu X, Graeff R, Xie Q, Gamble KL, Mori T, Johnson CH. Comment on “The Arabidopsis circadian clock incorporates a cADPR-based feedback loop.” Science 2009;326:230; author reply 230.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kudnig ST, Séguin B. Veterinary Surgical Oncology. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Dellheim J, Wolf FO, editors. Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy: On the History and the Present of Luxemburg’s “Accumulation of Capital.” London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sharland M, Hammeke TA. Steamrolled: Sports-Related Concussions. In: Apps JN, Newby RF, Roberts LW, editors. Pediatric Neuropsychology Case Studies: From the Exceptional to the Commonplace, New York, NY: Springer; 2010, p. 43–9.

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. NASA Will Soon Let Private Companies Attach Modules To The ISS. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-soon-let-private-companies-attach-modules-iss/ (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. Mass Transit: Significant Federal Investment Is Not Adequately Protected. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Moulder JC. Comparative analgesic effects of prepulse inhibition and reduced voltage waveforms in defibrillation. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2010.

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]

Kelly C. Drop Out, Dive In, Start Up. New York Times 2012:BU1.

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