How to format your references using the Hospital Chronicles (Nosokomiaka Chronica) citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hospital Chronicles (Nosokomiaka Chronica). 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

Fenwick A. Waterborne infectious diseases--could they be consigned to history? Science. 2006 Aug 25;313(5790):1077–81.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sandoval DA, Seeley RJ. Medicine. The microbes made me eat it. Science. 2010 Apr 9;328(5975):179–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stone L, Olinky R, Huppert A. Seasonal dynamics of recurrent epidemics. Nature. 2007 Mar 29;446(7135):533–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hu Y, Yu CY, Wang JL, Guan J, Chen HY, Fang JY. MicroRNA sequence polymorphisms and the risk of different types of cancer. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan 13;4:3648.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

May V, Kühn O. Charge and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Molecular Systems. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2007.

An edited book

Al-Ekabi C, editor. European Autonomy in Space. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XI, 198 p. 6 illus. (Studies in Space Policy; vol. 10).

A chapter in an edited book

Uustalu T, Vene V. The Essence of Dataflow Programming. In: Horváth Z, editor. Central European Functional Programming School: First Summer School, CEFP 2005, Budapest, Hungary, July 4-15, 2005, Revised Selected Lectures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 135–67. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Hospital Chronicles (Nosokomiaka Chronica).

Blog post

Andrew E. Five New Species Of Flying Monkey Described [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/five-new-species-flying-monkey-described/

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. Airline Deregulation: Reregulating the Airline Industry Would Likely Reverse Consumer Benefits and Not Save Airline Pensions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Jun. Report No.: GAO-06-630.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Marquez RA. Examining coping skills used to deal with daily stressors of law enforcement [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Shpigel B. Rangers Regain Their Footing at the Garden and March Back Into the Series. New York Times. 2017 May 3;B10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Hospital Chronicles (Nosokomiaka Chronica)
ISSN (print)	1790-7306
Scope

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