How to format your references using the EClinicalMedicine citation style

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

Schlotterer C. Genetics. Where do male genes live? Science 2003;299:670–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Guo X, Silva SRP. Engineering. High-performance transistors by design. Science 2008;320:618–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Samokhvalov AV, Shekhter RI, Buzdin AI. Stimulation of a singlet superconductivity in SFS weak links by spin-exchange scattering of cooper pairs. Sci Rep 2014;4:5671.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Brown S, Janssen M, Adumitroaie V, Atreya S, Bolton S, Gulkis S, et al. Prevalent lightning sferics at 600 megahertz near Jupiter’s poles. Nature 2018;558:87–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bojowald M. The Universe: A View from Classical and Quantum Gravity. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Tambouris E, Panagiotopoulos P, Sæbø Ø, Wimmer MA, Pardo TA, Charalabidis Y, et al., editors. Electronic Participation: 8th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2016, Guimarães, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 9821. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Crowder JA, Carbone JN, Demijohn R. Systems Engineering Tools and Practices. In: Carbone JN, Demijohn R, editors. Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering: Architecting the Design Process, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 89–103.

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 EClinicalMedicine.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. Everything You Need To Know About Buying A Telescope. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/everything-you-need-to-know-about-buying-a-telescope/ (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. Weather Service Modernization: Risks Remain That Full Systems Potential Will Not be Achieved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Miller T. A qualitative phenomenological study: Hiring nurses re-entering the workforce after chemical dependence. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2014.

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]

Robbins L, Rodriguez NT. Gang Murders in the Suburbs. New York Times 2017:MB1.

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	EClinicalMedicine
ISSN (print)	2589-5370
Scope