How to format your references using the Clinical Mass Spectrometry citation style

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

[1]

I.C.F. Müller-Wodarg, Planetary science. Exploring other worlds to learn more about our own, Science 312 (2006) 1319–1320.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Trautmann, E. Vivier, Immunology. Agrin--a bridge between the nervous and immune systems, Science 292 (2001) 1667–1668.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. King, J. Pan, M.E. Roberts, Political science. Reverse-engineering censorship in China: randomized experimentation and participant observation, Science 345 (2014) 1251722.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Lu, A.G.M. Borchers, C. Jolicoeur, H. Rayburn, J.C. Baker, M. Tessier-Lavigne, PTK7/CCK-4 is a novel regulator of planar cell polarity in vertebrates, Nature 430 (2004) 93–98.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Doldi, Validation of Communications Systems with SDL, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

L. Rutkowski, R. Tadeusiewicz, L.A. Zadeh, J.M. Zurada, eds., Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing – ICAISC 2008: 9th International Conference Zakopane, Poland, June 22-26, 2008 Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. (charlie) E.N. Veron, L.M. DeVantier, E. Turak, A.L. Green, S. Kininmonth, M. Stafford-Smith, N. Peterson, The Coral Triangle, in: Z. Dubinsky, N. Stambler (Eds.), Coral Reefs: An Ecosystem in Transition, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011: pp. 47–55.

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 Mass Spectrometry.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Great Barrier Reef Under Threat Of Being Listed A “World Heritage Site In Danger,” IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/great-barrier-reef-under-threat-of-being-listed-a-world-heritage-site-in-danger/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Troops-To-Teachers: Program Brings More Men and Minorities to the Teaching Workforce, but Education Could Improve Management to Enhance Results, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y. Liu, Analysis on the distinct path in a star interconnection network, Doctoral dissertation, 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

[1]

K. Crow, Abingdon Square Park: Small Site, Never-Ending Debate, New York Times (2002) 148.

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 Mass Spectrometry
Abbreviation	Clin. Mass Spectrom.
ISSN (print)	2376-9998
Scope