How to format your references using the Clinica Chimica Acta citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinica Chimica Acta. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

T.J. Kane, Education. The long road to race-blindness, Science 302 (2003) 571–573.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.F. Irvine, R.M. Denton, Cell biology. Pyro-technic control of metabolism, Science 334 (2011) 770–771.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Lee, A.A. Abdeen, K.A. Kilian, Rewiring mesenchymal stem cell lineage specification by switching the biophysical microenvironment, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5188.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.-C. Han, C.K. Shum, M. Bevis, C. Ji, C.-Y. Kuo, Crustal dilatation observed by GRACE after the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, Science 313 (2006) 658–662.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Cohen, Business Intelligence, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

H. Yamashita, Y. Hirose, J.L. Packard, eds., Processing and Producing Head-final Structures, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.S. Hesthaven, G. Rozza, B. Stamm, The Empirical Interpolation Method, in: G. Rozza, B. Stamm (Eds.), Certified Reduced Basis Methods for Parametrized Partial Differential Equations, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 67–85.

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 Clinica Chimica Acta.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Scientists Discover Plants Have “Brains” That Determine When They Grow, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-plants-brains-determine-grow/ (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, Digests of Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. III, No. 10, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.M. Heatlie, Effects of Simulation on Senior Nursing Students’ Patient Safety Competence: A Quantitative Study, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2015.

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]

J. Clarke, The Ashes That Got Away, New York Times (2017) SP8.

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	Clinica Chimica Acta
Abbreviation	Clin. Chim. Acta
ISSN (print)	0009-8981
Scope	Biochemistry Clinical Biochemistry General Medicine Biochemistry, medical