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. Knight RT. Neuroscience. Neural networks debunk phrenology. Science. 2007;316:1578–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gogotsi Y, Simon P. Materials science. True performance metrics in electrochemical energy storage. Science. 2011;334:917–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Thompson JK, Rainville S, Pritchard DE. Cyclotron frequency shifts arising from polarization forces. Nature. 2004;430:58–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Gordon L, Abu-Farsakh H, Janotti A, Van de Walle CG. Hydrogen bonds in Al2O3 as dissipative two-level systems in superconducting qubits. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7590.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Allerton D. Principles of Flight Simulation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2009.

An edited book

1. Raso J, Heinz V, editors. Pulsed Electric Fields Technology for the Food Industry: Fundamentals and Applications. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Strubbe S, Langerak R. A Composition Operator for Systems with Active and Passive Actions. In: Wang F, editor. Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems - FORTE 2005: 25th IFIP WG 61 International Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2-5, 2005 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. p. 24–37.

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. Davis J. Anti-Vaxxers Fund Study That Finds Zero Link Between Vaccinations And Autism [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/anti-vaxxers-fund-study-finds-zero-link-between-vaccinations-and-autism/

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. Aviation Safety: Proposals to Enhance Aircraft Tracking and Flight Data Recovery May Aid Accident Investigation, but Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015 Apr. Report No.: GAO-15-443.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Espinoza E. Understanding help-seeking behavior among at-risk Latino male high school students [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. Poniewozik J. A Family Revolving Around a Disability. New York Times. 2016 Sep 21;C1.

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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