How to format your references using the Clinical Reviews in Bone and Mineral Metabolism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Reviews in Bone and Mineral Metabolism. 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. Penn RB. Physiology. Calcilytics for asthma relief. Science. 2015;348:398–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Scott JD, Pawson T. Cell signaling in space and time: where proteins come together and when they’re apart. Science. 2009;326:1220–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cartwright HN, Humphries JA, Smith LG. PAN1: a receptor-like protein that promotes polarization of an asymmetric cell division in maize. Science. 2009;323:649–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nestola F, Korolev N, Kopylova M, Rotiroti N, Pearson DG, Pamato MG, et al. CaSiO3 perovskite in diamond indicates the recycling of oceanic crust into the lower mantle. Nature. 2018;555:237–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Neupert R. French Animation History. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Schmidt MG. The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Welfare State: The German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and German Unification (1989-1994). Ritter GA, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Waki K. Assessment of Extracardiac and Intracardiac Anatomy by MD-CT. In: Senzaki H, Yasukochi S, editors. Congenital Heart Disease: Morphological and Functional Assessment. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015. p. 71–94.

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 Reviews in Bone and Mineral Metabolism.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Odds Keep Rising For A Big El Niño In 2015 [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/odds-keep-rising-big-el-ni-o-2015/

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. Head Start: Research Insufficient to Assess Program Impact. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Mar. Report No.: T-HEHS-98-126.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Thornsberry JL. Freshman transition and its effectiveness on student success as measured by improved attendance, improved grades, decreased discipline referrals, and decreased dropout rate [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 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

1. Davey M, Robles F. Two Lives at Crossroads in Ferguson. New York Times. 2014 Aug 25;A1.

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 Reviews in Bone and Mineral Metabolism
Abbreviation	Clin. Rev. Bone Miner. Metab.
ISSN (print)	1534-8644
ISSN (online)	1559-0119
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Orthopedics and Sports Medicine