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

Duncan, S.R., ‘Perspective: Clues, Not Conclusions’, Nature, 489, 7417 (2012), S15.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hewitt, S.C., and Korach, K.S., ‘Cell Biology. A Hand to Support the Implantation Window’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 331, 6019 (2011), 863–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Riedel, I.H., Kruse, K., and Howard, J., ‘A Self-Organized Vortex Array of Hydrodynamically Entrained Sperm Cells’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 309, 5732 (2005), 300–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Myers, R.A., Levin, S.A., Lande, R., James, F.C., Murdoch, W.W., and Paine, R.T., ‘Ecology. Hatcheries and Endangered Salmon’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 303, 5666 (2004), 1980.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hoffmann, W., The Economic Competitiveness of Renewable Energy (Hoboken, NJ, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014).

An edited book

S. Feng, W. Huang, J. Wang, M. Wang, and J. Zha (eds), Low-Carbon City and New-Type Urbanization: Proceedings of Chinese Low-Carbon City Development International Conference, Environmental Science and Engineering (Berlin, Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Mathieu, L., and Ballu, A., ‘A Model for a Coherent and Complete Tolerancing Process’, in Davidson, J.K. (ed.), Models for Computer Aided Tolerancing in Design and Manufacturing: Selected Conference Papers from the 9th CIRP International Seminar on Computer-Aided Tolerancing, Held at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA, 10-12 April, 2005 (Dordrecht, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007), 35–44.

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

Fang, J., ‘Male Zebra Finches Without Moms Prefer Other Males As Mates’, IFLScience IFLScience, version published 18 June 2014, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/male-zebra-finches-without-moms-prefer-other-males-mates/, 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, Tax Policy: Historical Tax Treatment of INTELSAT and Current Tax Rules for Satellite Corporations, GAO-04-994 (Washington, DC, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2004).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yasa, S.R., ‘Visual Basic Simulation of H2S Removal from Natural Gas at Downhole in an Extraction Well’, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, (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

Hubbard, B., ‘Rising Saudi Prince, 31, Advances to One Step From the Throne’, New York Times, 21 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