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

Long MD. GEOPHYSICS. How mountains get made. Science. 2015;349(6249):687-688.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chenn A, Walsh CA. Regulation of cerebral cortical size by control of cell cycle exit in neural precursors. Science. 2002;297(5580):365-369.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bradshaw D, Warren JE, Rosseinsky MJ. Reversible concerted ligand substitution at alternating metal sites in an extended solid. Science. 2007;315(5814):977-980.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Peruzzo A, Lobino M, Matthews JCF, et al. Quantum walks of correlated photons. Science. 2010;329(5998):1500-1503.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fiske JR, Fiske CA. The Big Book of Benefit Auctions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Eladdadi A, Kim P, Mallet D, eds. Mathematical Models of Tumor-Immune System Dynamics. Vol 107. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Iwanari Y, Yabu Y, Tasaki M, Yokoo M. Network Distributed POMDP with Communication. In: Hattori H, Kawamura T, Idé T, Yokoo M, Murakami Y, eds. New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI 2008 Conference and Workshops, Asahikawa, Japan, June 11-13, 2008, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2009:26-38.

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

Carpineti C. Moron Decides To Tease Enormous Alligator While Dressed As A T-Rex. IFLScience. March 18, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/moron-decides-to-tease-enormous-alligator-while-dressed-as-a-trex/

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 Reform: Progress Made; More Needs to Be Done to Complete Actions and Measure Results. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mullin Piette AJ. Dialogic Encounters among Health Care Providers in Pediatric Critical Care: A Qualitative, Collective Case Study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 2010.

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

Kirk S. Aid for Greece Sought. New York Times. February 10, 1942:BOOKS18.

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