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

Rockström J. A “perfect” agreement in Paris is not essential. Nature. 2015;527(7579):411.

A journal article with 2 authors

Müller FJ, Loring JF. Network biology: A compass for stem-cell differentiation. Nature. 2014;513(7519):498-499.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reiserer A, Ritter S, Rempe G. Nondestructive detection of an optical photon. Science. 2013;342(6164):1349-1351.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Egas M, Kats R, van der Sar X, Reuben E, Sabelis MW. Human cooperation by lethal group competition. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1373.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kadane JB, Schum DA. A Probabilistic Analysis of the Sacco and Vanzetti Evidence: Kadane/A Probabilistic. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1997.

An edited book

Benavot A, Braslavsky C, Truong N, eds. School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective: Changing Curricula in Primary and Secondary Education. Vol 18. Springer Netherlands; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Farley K, Grcich K, Ryan MB. Establishing Residential Colleges in Diverse Cultures. In: Evans HM, Burt TP, eds. The Collegiate Way: University Education in a Collegiate Context. SensePublishers; 2016:45-56.

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

Fang J. New Brain Map Reveals Unknown Cell Types. IFLScience. February 21, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-brain-map-reveals-unknown-cell-types-mice/

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. Information Technology: State Department Led Overseas Modernization Program Faces Management Challenges. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Volle M. Exploring the Relationship of Meetings to Organizational Culture and Values. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University; 2017.

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

Vecsey G. German Hand Helps to Bolster American Identity One Change at a Time. New York Times. October 11, 2011:B16.

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