How to format your references using the Clinical Investigation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Investigation. 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 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

Campbell P. Declaration of financial interests. Nature. 412(6849), 751 (2001).

A journal article with 2 authors

Toader O, John S. Proposed square spiral microfabrication architecture for large three-dimensional photonic band gap crystals. Science. 292(5519), 1133–1135 (2001).

A journal article with 3 authors

Fischer J, Baumgartner J, Marschner C. Synthesis and structure of sila-adamantane. Science. 310(5749), 825 (2005).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sato C, Ueno Y, Asai K, et al. The voltage-sensitive sodium channel is a bell-shaped molecule with several cavities. Nature. 409(6823), 1047–1051 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zepernick H-J, Finger A. Pseudo Random Signal Processing. John Wiley & Sons Ltd,., West Sussex, England.

An edited book

Patel VB, Preedy VR, editors. Biomarkers in Cardiovascular Disease. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu Y, Dai X. China’s Not-in-My-Backyard Protest in the Process of Urbanization. In: Urban China in the New Era: Market Reforms, Current State, and the Road Forward. Cheng Z, Wang M, Chen J (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 85–101 (2014).

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 Investigation.

Blog post

Hale T. Check Out An Old Toothbrush Vs A New Toothbrush Under An Electron Microscope. IFLScience (2015).

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. Federal Research: Super Collider Estimates and Germany’s Industrially Produced Magnets. 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

Vincent PS. The State of Chaos. (2012).

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

Markoff J. John Ellenby, Creator of Early Laptop, Dies at 75. New York Times, A14 (2016).

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 Investigation
Abbreviation	Clin. Investig. (Lond.)
ISSN (print)	2041-6792
ISSN (online)	2041-6806
Scope