How to format your references using the Clinical Chemistry citation style

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

Konner M. Bad words. Nature. 2001;411:743.

A journal article with 2 authors

Beg AA, Scheiffele P. Neuroscience. SUMO wrestles the synapse. Science. 2006;311:962–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nørskov JK, Bligaard T, Kleis J. Chemistry. Rate control and reaction engineering. Science. 2009;324:1655–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Davis S, Begon M, De Bruyn L, Ageyev VS, Klassovskiy NL, Pole SB, et al. Predictive thresholds for plague in Kazakhstan. Science. 2004;304:736–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Church RL, Murray AT. Business Site Selection, Location Analysis and GIS. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Mann S, editor. Sectors Matter!: Exploring Mesoeconomics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Prabhu VS, Alnaqi AA, Brooks PC. The Thermal Characterisation of a Disc Brake Rotor at Reduced Scale with Particular Reference to Pad Aspect Ratio. In: Andreescu C, Clenci A, editors. Proceedings of the European Automotive Congress EAEC-ESFA 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. page 51–60.

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 Chemistry.

Blog post

Andrew E. Why Do Human Children Stay So Small For So Long? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-do-human-children-stay-so-small-so-long/

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. Mistake In Proposal Alleged After Award. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 May. Report No.: B-176772.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Desai SS. CFD simuation of flow past a rotating circular cylinder with an end plate [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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 M. THE TRANSITION: The President-Elect; Despite Some Signs of Recovery, Clinton Points to Economic Perils. New York Times. 1992;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Chemistry
Abbreviation	Clin. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0009-9147
ISSN (online)	1530-8561
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry Biochemistry, medical