How to format your references using the New Horizons in Clinical Case Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Horizons in Clinical Case Reports. 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]

H. Pearson, Mystery virus slow to yield its identity as patient numbers rise, Nature 422 (2003) 364.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Besenbacher, J.K. Nørskov, SURFACE SCIENCE: How to Power a Nanomotor, Science 290 (2000) 1520.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Meeusen, J.M. McCaffery, J. Nunnari, Mitochondrial fusion intermediates revealed in vitro, Science 305 (2004) 1747–1752.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Z.-T. Huang, Y.-F. Li, P.-K. Jiang, S.X. Chang, Z.-L. Song, J. Liu, G.-M. Zhou, Long-term intensive management increased carbon occluded in phytolith (PhytOC) in bamboo forest soils, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3602.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.D. Niles, Old English Literature, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

P.M. Diffenderfer, Microsoft Dynamics NAV: Jump Start to Optimization, 2nd revised edition, Vieweg+Teubner, Wiesbaden, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Fortunati, A.M. Manganelli, P.-L. Law, S. Yang, The “Mobile” Face of Contemporary China, in: P.-L. Law (Ed.), New Connectivities in China: Virtual, Actual and Local Interactions, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012: pp. 53–65.

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 New Horizons in Clinical Case Reports.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Moths Know Which Flowers Fit Their Mouthparts The Best, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/moths-know-which-flowers-fit-their-mouths-best/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Indian Affairs: Bureau of Indian Education Needs to Improve Oversight of School Spending, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.L. Fonfa, The impact of increased security on the employment options and lives of people with severe disabilities, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2008.

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]

B. Sansal, The altered state of France, New York Times (2017) 0.

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	New Horizons in Clinical Case Reports
Abbreviation	New Horiz. Clin. Case Rep.
ISSN (print)	2352-9482
Scope