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. Schmittner A. Decline of the marine ecosystem caused by a reduction in the Atlantic overturning circulation. Nature. 2005;434:628–33.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dudai Y, Carruthers M. The Janus face of Mnemosyne. Nature. 2005;434:567.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wake DB, Wake MH, Specht CD. Homoplasy: from detecting pattern to determining process and mechanism of evolution. Science. 2011;331:1032–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Que X, Hung M-Y, Yeang C, Gonen A, Prohaska TA, Sun X, et al. Publisher Correction: Oxidized phospholipids are proinflammatory and proatherogenic in hypercholesterolaemic mice. Nature. 2018;561:E43.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Anjum B, Perros H. Bandwidth Allocation for Video Under Quality of Service Constraints. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. DeLamater J, Ward A, editors. Handbook of Social Psychology. 2nd ed. 2013. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Borchard M. The Germans and the crisis: which perceptions? In: Chopin T, Foucher M, editors. Schuman Report on Europe: State of the Union 2011. Paris: Springer; 2011. p. 44–5.

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. Carpineti A. What’s Hiding Underneath Jupiter’s Clouds? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-s-hiding-underneath-jupiter-s-clouds/

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. Local Media Advertising: FCC Should Take Action to Ensure Television Stations Publicly File Advertising Agreements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Mar. Report No.: GAO-16-349.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dawood AA. Relationship between mental health and treatment seeking in an urban Muslim community [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Burghardt LF. A Pink Slip-Up For Garbage Pickup. New York Times. 2006 Jan 22;14LI7.

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