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

Marshall E (2000) A sinister plot or victim of politics? Science 289:571

A journal article with 2 authors

Bonduriansky R, Brassil CE (2002) Senescence: rapid and costly ageing in wild male flies. Nature 420:377

A journal article with 3 authors

van Doorn GS, Edelaar P, Weissing FJ (2009) On the origin of species by natural and sexual selection. Science 326:1704–1707

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lilburn TG, Kim KS, Ostrom NE, et al (2001) Nitrogen fixation by symbiotic and free-living spirochetes. Science 292:2495–2498

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bersuker IB (2010) Electronic Structure and Properties of Transition Metal Compounds. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ma Z (2006) Soft Computing in Ontologies and Semantic Web. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Dolamic L, Savoy J (2008) Stemming Approaches for East European Languages. In: Peters C, Jijkoun V, Mandl T, et al (eds) Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–44

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

Davis J (2015) Scientists Genetically Engineer Yeast To Produce Morphine-Like Painkiller. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-genetically-engineer-yeast-produce-morphine-painkiller/. 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 (2002) Higher Education: Activities Underway to Improve Teacher Training, but Reporting on These Activities Could Be Enhanced. 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

Meyer-Barrett JM (2017) Exercising Their Privilege to Borrow: A Demonstrated Understanding of the Obligation of Student Loans in a Community College. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Kelly SR (2017) A Better Way to Fix the Border. New York Times A27

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

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