How to format your references using the Clinical Plasma Medicine citation style

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

[1]

D.B. Wilson, Immunology: Insulin auto-antigenicity in type 1 diabetes, Nature 438 (2005) E5; discussion E5-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Rus, M.T. Tolley, Design, fabrication and control of soft robots, Nature 521 (2015) 467–475.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.S. Elioff, J.J. Valentini, D.W. Chandler, Subkelvin cooling NO molecules via “billiard-like” collisions with argon, Science 302 (2003) 1940–1943.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Lan, M. Tan, Y. Zhang, S. Niu, J. Chen, S. Shi, S. Qiu, X. Wang, X. Peng, G. Cai, H. Cheng, J. Wu, G. Li, M. Lei, Structural insight into precursor tRNA processing by yeast ribonuclease P, Science 362 (2018).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Sadati, G.A. Dumont, K.A. Hamed, W.A. Gruver, Hybrid Control and Motion Planning of Dynamical Legged Locomotion, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

G. Hendrikse, M. Tuunanen, J. Windsperger, G. Cliquet, eds., Strategy and Governance of Networks: Cooperatives, Franchising, and Strategic Alliances, Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.J. Brown, I. Cybulska, T. Chaturvedi, M.H. Thomsen, Halophytes for the Production of Liquid Biofuels, in: M.A. Khan, B. Böer, M. Öztürk, T.Z.A. Abdessalaam, M. Clüsener-Godt, B. Gul (Eds.), Sabkha Ecosystems: Volume IV: Cash Crop Halophyte and Biodiversity Conservation, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014: pp. 67–72.

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 Plasma Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Big Data’s “Streetlight Effect’: Where And How We Look Affects What We See, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/big-data-s-streetlight-effect-where-and-how-we-look-affects-what-we-see/ (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, Information Technology: DLA Needs to Strengthen Its Investment Management Capability, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.C. Pestano, The Utilization of a Web-Based Internet Application to Improve Access and Efficiency of In-Home Care Services Provided by Personal Care Aides, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

M. Gold, Shock of the New. Shock of the Old, New York Times (2017) AR9.

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 Plasma Medicine
Abbreviation	Clin. Plasma Med.
ISSN (print)	2212-8166
Scope	Medicine (miscellaneous) Condensed Matter Physics