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]

W. Leith, Geology. Building for earthquakes, Science. 304 (2004) 1604.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.E. Schwab, A.D. Buchli, Drug research: plug the real brain drain, Nature. 483 (2012) 267–268.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E.D. Green, J.D. Watson, F.S. Collins, Human Genome Project: Twenty-five years of big biology, Nature. 526 (2015) 29–31.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Kadau, T.C. Germann, P.S. Lomdahl, B.L. Holian, Microscopic view of structural phase transitions induced by shock waves, Science. 296 (2002) 1681–1684.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.G. Speight, K. Singh, Environmental Management of Energy from Biofuels and Biofeedstocks, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

K. Basu, J.E. Stiglitz, eds., Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy: Volume II: Regions and Regularities, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Zarghami, F. Szidarovszky, Solution of Continuous MCDA Problems, in: F. Szidarovszky (Ed.), Multicriteria Analysis: Applications to Water and Environment Management, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 51–76.

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]

E. Andrew, The Atlantic Is Entering A Cool Phase That Will Change The World’s Weather, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/atlantic-entering-cool-phase-will-change-world-s-weather/ (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, Examination of Grants Awarded to the Berkeley Unified School District and to Bilingual Children’s Television, Inc, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Mahiko, Community Connections: Supporting Rural Youth with Disabilities Who Are Work-Bound, Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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]

M. Cooper, Venezuela Cancels Dudamel’s Tour, New York Times. (2017) C3.

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

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