rtFIN is an international community dedicated to supporting neurofeedback research across all imaging modalities. We maintain a literature repository for all real-time functional imaging applications.
Anyone with a GitHub account can contribute by adding papers to the /publications section of the site. Entries are stored in BibTeX format (.bib). For example:
@article{lorenz2017neuroadaptive,
title={Neuroadaptive {Bayesian} optimization and hypothesis testing},
author={Lorenz, Romy and Hampshire, Adam and Leech, Robert},
journal={Trends in Cognitive Sciences},
year={2017},
publisher={Elsevier},
imaging={fmri},
application={methods},
new={false},
url={http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661317300098}
}
Each year has a separate .bib file (e.g. 2017.bib). To find the BibTeX data for a paper, you can use Google Scholar's cite option by clicking on the quote graphic:
Then click on the 'BibTeX' link:
And you'll see the BibTeX data. Next, you'll need to add it to the appropriate year's .bib file. To do this, you'll first need to 'fork' the rtfin-lit GitHub repository.
This will make a copy of the rtfin-lit repository on your GitHub profile. Then, you'll need to download the repository to your computer (either using git commands, e.g. git clone https://github.com/YourUserName/rtfin-lit.git, or by clicking the download link from the repository on your GitHub profile). Then, using a text editor, add the BibTeX data to the appropriate file (e.g. add it to the file named publications/2017.bib, or whatever the year of the publication).
We also ask that you add the imaging modality and application to the entry, as well as a valid URL to access the paper (ideally, a public link or link to a PDF, but paywalled entries are OK too if that's all you can find). For the example given earlier, these are:
imaging={fmri},
application={methods},
url={http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661317300098}
The options for imaging and application are:
imaging={fmri, eeg, meg, fnirs, mixed}
application={neurofeedback, clinical, review, methods}
Please select the most appropriate application, to your best judgment. If the study uses multiple imaging methods, select imaging={mixed}.
There's also an option to flag new papers with an alarm emoji: 🚨. Simply add it to the BibTeX entry with the 'new' flag:
new={true}
And the alarm (🚨) will appear next to the paper. If you're making a major update, go through the old papers and change the 'new' flag to false:
new={false}
And the alarm (🚨) will go away for those no-longer-new papers.
Once you have made the changes on your computer, you'll need to push the changes back to your GitHub profile (either by using git push or by uploading the updated files to your copy of the GitHub repository). Once your updated files are in the /publications subdirectory of your copy of the rtfin-lit repository, you'll need to submit a 'pull request':
This will inform the rtFIN admins of your updates. Once we check them over, we'll pull them into the main repository and your changes will go live on rtfin.org!