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How to format your references using the Mayo Clinic Proceedings citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Schilling G. Spain unveils its eye on the sky. Nature. 2009;460(7256):674.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Post E, Forchhammer MC. Synchronization of animal population dynamics by large-scale climate. Nature. 2002;420(6912):168-171.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Karlson RH, Cornell HV, Hughes TP. Coral communities are regionally enriched along an oceanic biodiversity gradient. Nature. 2004;429(6994):867-870.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Johnson TC, Brown ET, McManus J, Barry S, Barker P, Gasse F. A high-resolution paleoclimate record spanning the past 25,000 years in southern East Africa. Science. 2002;296(5565):113-132.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Kent J. ADA in Details. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.
An edited book
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Kauffman CA, Pappas PG, Sobel JD, Dismukes WE, eds. Essentials of Clinical Mycology. 2nd ed. Springer; 2011.
A chapter in an edited book
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Tournois J, Alliez P, Devillers O. Interleaving Delaunay Refinement and Optimization for 2D Triangle Mesh Generation. In: Brewer ML, Marcum D, eds. Proceedings of the 16th International Meshing Roundtable. Springer; 2008:83-101.

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 Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Blog post
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Andrew E. Maimed Toucan Set To Receive 3D Printed Beak. IFLScience.

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
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Government Accountability Office. Opportunities for Improving Program Planning for Photovoltaic Research and Development. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Ward S. Historiography, Prophecy, and Literature: “Divina Retribución” and Its Underlying Ideological Agenda. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University; 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
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Kenigsberg B. Review: ‘Audrie & Daisy,’ on Sexual Assault and Technology. New York Times. September 22, 2016:C6.

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 titleMayo Clinic Proceedings
AbbreviationMayo Clin. Proc.
ISSN (print)0025-6196
ScopeGeneral Medicine

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