How to format your references using the Clinical eHealth citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical eHealth. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Knowles MT. How metrics could have saved UK car industry. Nature. 2000;405(6782):13-14.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowley DB, Currie BS. Palaeo-altimetry of the late Eocene to Miocene Lunpola basin, central Tibet. Nature. 2006;439(7077):677-681.

A journal article with 3 authors

Depew MJ, Lufkin T, Rubenstein JLR. Specification of jaw subdivisions by Dlx genes. Science. 2002;298(5592):381-385.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gu TP, Guo F, Yang H, et al. The role of Tet3 DNA dioxygenase in epigenetic reprogramming by oocytes. Nature. 2011;477(7366):606-610.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiens JA. Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Iliadis L, Maglogiannis I, Papadopoulos H, eds. Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations: 10th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference, AIAI 2014, Rhodes, Greece, September 19-21, 2014. Proceedings. Vol 436. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Mohanty SK. Environmentally Sensitive Goods in India’s Trade: Emerging Challenges and Prospects. In: Das K, ed. Globalization and Standards: Issues and Challenges in Indian Business. India Studies in Business and Economics. Springer India; 2014:61-100.

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 eHealth.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Possible Cure Found For Rare “Stone Man” Disease That Turns Muscle To Bone. IFLScience. September 3, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/possible-cure-found-rare-stone-man-disease-turns-muscle-bone/

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. International Space Station: U.S. Life-Cycle Funding Requirements. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Carpenter DM. Understanding the Effect of Conflicting Information on Medication Adherence for Vasculitis Patients. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina; 2009.

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

Gurley G. Forget All the Rest, He’s Mr. Condiment. New York Times. October 20, 2013:ST1.

In-text citations

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

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 eHealth
ISSN (print)	2588-9141
Scope