How to format your references using the Clio Medica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clio Medica. 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

Schratt, G., ‘Neurobiology: A Molecular Knife to Dice Depression’, Nature, 516, 7529 (2014), 45–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Noble, A.J., and Stagg, S.M., ‘STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY. COPI Gets a Fancy New Coat’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 349, 6244 (2015), 142–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Polley, D.B., Kvasnák, E., and Frostig, R.D., ‘Naturalistic Experience Transforms Sensory Maps in the Adult Cortex of Caged Animals’, Nature, 429, 6987 (2004), 67–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Herd, C.D.K., Blinova, A., Simkus, D.N., Huang, Y., Tarozo, R., Alexander, C.M.O., et al., ‘Origin and Evolution of Prebiotic Organic Matter as Inferred from the Tagish Lake Meteorite’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 332, 6035 (2011), 1304–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lader, E.W., Field Guide to the Arrhythmias (Oxford, UK, Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2013).

An edited book

D.H. Laidlaw, and A. Vilanova (eds), New Developments in the Visualization and Processing of Tensor Fields, Mathematics and Visualization (Berlin, Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012).

A chapter in an edited book

Gelmetti, C., ‘La Dermatologia e La Venereologia Del Secolo XVIII’, in Gelmetti, C. (ed.), Storia Della Dermatologia e Della Venereologia in Italia (Milano, Milano: Springer, 2015), 75–101.

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 Clio Medica.

Blog post

Andrew, E., ‘The Plague Was Infecting Bronze Age People About 5,000 Years Ago’, IFLScience IFLScience, version published 22 October 2015, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/plague-was-infecting-bronze-age-people-about-5000-years-ago/, accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office, Electronic Government: Implementation of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, GAO-10-365 (Washington, DC, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2010).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gravano, A., ‘Turn-Taking and Affirmative Cue Words in Task-Oriented Dialogue’, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, (2009).

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

Hubbard, B., ‘Arab Nations Present Demands to Qatar, Including That It Close Down Al Jazeera’, New York Times, 23 June 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Clio Medica
ISSN (print)	0045-7183
Scope