How to format your references using the Hospital Chronicles (Nosokomiaka Chronica) citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hospital Chronicles (Nosokomiaka Chronica). 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

Kawakatsu H. Geophysics. At the bottom of the oceanic plate. Science. 2012 Mar 23;335(6075):1448–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Müller UK, Lentink D. Physiology. Turning on a dime. Science. 2004 Dec 10;306(5703):1899–900.

A journal article with 3 authors

Corcoran AJ, Barber JR, Conner WE. Tiger moth jams bat sonar. Science. 2009 Jul 17;325(5938):325–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Quiroga RQ, Reddy L, Kreiman G, Koch C, Fried I. Invariant visual representation by single neurons in the human brain. Nature. 2005 Jun 23;435(7045):1102–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell DL. Practical Wastewater Treatment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Arxer SL, Murphy JW, editors. The Symbolism of Globalization, Development, and Aging. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. X, 170 p. (International Perspectives on Aging; vol. 7).

A chapter in an edited book

Araújo V, Pacifico MJ. Robustness on the Whole Ambient Space. In: Pacifico MJ, editor. Three-Dimensional Flows. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 99–121.

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 Hospital Chronicles (Nosokomiaka Chronica).

Blog post

Andrews R. This Single Drug Will Extend The Lives Of Millions Of Pet Dogs. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Railroad Safety: Human Factor Accidents and Issues Affecting Engineer Work Schedules. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Jul. Report No.: RCED-93-160BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ports MO. Laterally associated proteins modulate α6 integrin cleavage, a permissive process utilized during cancer metastasis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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

Pogrebin R, Cooper M. Geffen Calls Lack of Aid For a Hall ‘Shameful.’ New York Times. 2017 Oct 4;C1.

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 title	Hospital Chronicles (Nosokomiaka Chronica)
ISSN (print)	1790-7306
Scope