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. Dalton R. Palaeoanthropology: face to face with our past. Nature. 2002;420:735–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zucker AA, Light D. Laptop programs for students. Science. 2009;323:82–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Daw R, Finkelstein J, Helmer M. Chemistry and energy. Nature. 2012;488:293.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Meshorer E, Erb C, Gazit R, Pavlovsky L, Kaufer D, Friedman A, et al. Alternative splicing and neuritic mRNA translocation under long-term neuronal hypersensitivity. Science. 2002;295:508–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Halpert B. Auditing Cloud Computing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Lay G, editor. Servitization in Industry. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gambarelli S, Mulliez E, Fontecave M. Iron–Sulfur Clusters in “Radical SAM” Enzymes: Spectroscopy and Coordination. In: Hanson G, Berliner L, editors. Metals in Biology: Applications of High-Resolution EPR to Metalloenzymes. New York, NY: Springer; 2010. p. 53–82.

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. Fang J. Why Do Young Lizards Have Blue Tails? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-young-lizards-have-blue-tails/

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. No Child Left Behind Act: Improved Accessibility to Education’s Information Could Help States Further Implement Teacher Qualification Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Nov. Report No.: GAO-06-25.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Khalili A. Spectrally formulated user-defined element in Abaqus for wave motion analysis and health monitoring of composite structures [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 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

1. Andrews M. Venus Williams Investigated in Fatal Crash. New York Times. 2017 Jun 29;B12.

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

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