How to format your references using the Clinical Autonomic Research citation style

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

Powell K (2004) Stars in the making. Nature 429:786–787

A journal article with 2 authors

Drenkard E, Ausubel FM (2002) Pseudomonas biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance are linked to phenotypic variation. Nature 416:740–743

A journal article with 3 authors

McCormick DA, Shu Y, Yu Y (2007) Neurophysiology: Hodgkin and Huxley model--still standing? Nature 445:E1-2; discussion E2-3

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Imkeller K, Scally SW, Bosch A, et al (2018) Antihomotypic affinity maturation improves human B cell responses against a repetitive epitope. Science 360:1358–1362

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Courant R, McShane EJ (1988) Differential and Integral Calculus. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bravetti M, Zavattaro G (2009) CONCUR 2009 - Concurrency Theory: 20th International Conference, CONCUR 2009, Bologna, Italy, September 1-4, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Smart WD (2007) Writing Code in the Field: Implications for Robot Software Development. In: Brugali D (ed) Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 93–105

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 Autonomic Research.

Blog post

Taub B (2015) Scientists Are Trying To Figure Out What The “Spirit Molecule” Does. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-seek-role-spirit-molecule/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2004) Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Federal Agencies Are Taking Steps to Assist States and Local Agencies in Coordinating Transportation Services. 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

Li X (2009) Graph-based learning for information systems. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Crow K (2003) You Talkin’ to Me? Less and Less These Days. New York Times 146

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	Clinical Autonomic Research
Abbreviation	Clin. Auton. Res.
ISSN (print)	0959-9851
ISSN (online)	1619-1560
Scope	Clinical Neurology Endocrine and Autonomic Systems