How to format your references using the Clinical Autonomic Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Autonomic Research. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Lehmann J (2007) A handful of carbon. Nature 447:143–144

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang X, Su H (2014) Cuprate-like electronic properties in superlattices with Ag(II)F₂ square sheet. Sci Rep 4:5420

A journal article with 3 authors

Jin F-F, Boucharel J, Lin I-I (2014) Eastern Pacific tropical cyclones intensified by El Niño delivery of subsurface ocean heat. Nature 516:82–85

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ko YN, Park SB, Choi SH, Kang YC (2014) One-pot synthesis of manganese oxide-carbon composite microspheres with three dimensional channels for Li-ion batteries. Sci Rep 4:5751

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Posudin Y (2014) Methods of Measuring Environmental Parameters. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Trappl R (2006) Programming for Peace: Computer-Aided Methods for International Conflict Resolution and Prevention. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Landau L, Fettweis G (2016) Energy Efficient TSV Based Communication Employing 1-Bit Quantization at the Receiver. In: Elfadel I (abe) M, Fettweis G (eds) 3D Stacked Chips: From Emerging Processes to Heterogeneous Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 85–100

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 Clinical Autonomic Research.

Blog post

Andrews R (2015) New AIDS Vaccine To Undergo Human Trials For First Time. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/aids-vaccine-undergo-human-trials-first-time/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1994) Telecommunications: Financial Information on 16 Telephone and Cable Companies. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Young W (2012) Diamagnetism of a supersonic rotating magnetized plasma. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Wagner J (2017) Mets Sign Six, Including deGrom, Harvey and Familia; Flores Waits for More. New York Times D6

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	Clinical Autonomic Research
Abbreviation	Clin. Auton. Res.
ISSN (print)	0959-9851
ISSN (online)	1619-1560
Scope	Clinical Neurology Endocrine and Autonomic Systems