How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing. 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. Sammonds PR. Planetary science. Creep and flow on the icy moons of the outer planets. Science. 2006;311:1250–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cepko C, Punzo C. Cell metabolism: Sugar for sight. Nature. 2015;522:428–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Khashan SA, Alazzam A, Furlani EP. Computational analysis of enhanced magnetic bioseparation in microfluidic systems with flow-invasive magnetic elements. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5299.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Chapelle FH, O’Neill K, Bradley PM, Methé BA, Ciufo SA, Knobel LL, et al. A hydrogen-based subsurface microbial community dominated by methanogens. Nature. 2002;415:312–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Beach D. The Responsible Conduct of Research. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 1996.

An edited book

1. Morser J, Nishikawa S-I, Schöler HR, editors. Stem Cells in Reproduction and in the Brain. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Yuan W, Sickel W, Yang D. Several Equivalent Characterizations. In: Sickel W, Yang D, editors. Morrey and Campanato Meet Besov, Lizorkin and Triebel. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 65–135.

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 Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. Memetics And The Science Of Going Viral [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/memetics-and-the-science-of-going-viral/

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. Information on Organization and Functions of the Indian Education Resources Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Feb. Report No.: CED-78-57.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gandarilla AH. Family preservation: A content analysis of literature [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

1. Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. 2017 Jul 28;MM18.

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	Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Monit. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1387-1307
ISSN (online)	1573-2614
Scope	Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Health Informatics