How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing. 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

1. Cluver L. Children of the AIDS pandemic. Nature. 2011;474:27–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Miller TM, Cleveland DW. Medicine. Treating neurodegenerative diseases with antibiotics. Science. 2005;307:361–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Jiang X, Wang Y, Li M. Selecting water-alcohol mixed solvent for synthesis of polydopamine nano-spheres using solubility parameter. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6070.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lachner M, O’Carroll D, Rea S, Mechtler K, Jenuwein T. Methylation of histone H3 lysine 9 creates a binding site for HP1 proteins. Nature. 2001;410:116–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Delgado RL-C, Araki M. Spoken, Multilingual and Multimodal Dialogue Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Lioui A. Dynamic Asset Allocation with Forwards and Futures. Poncet P, editor. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ni W, Huang Y, Li D, Wang Y. Boosting over Groups and Its Application to Acronym-Expansion Extraction. In: Tang C, Ling CX, Zhou X, Cercone NJ, Li X, editors. Advanced Data Mining and Applications: 4th International Conference, ADMA 2008, Chengdu, China, October 8-10, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 27–38.

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 Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Man Has Night Vision Injected Into His Eyeballs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/biohacker-had-night-vision-injected-his-eyeballs/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Contracts Awarded by the Social and Rehabilitation Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on a Noncompetitive Basis. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971 Aug. Report No.: B-164031(3).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wang E. Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Investigation of the Coyote Mountain Shear Zone [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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. Wagner J. Mets Form Dream Infield, for a Chiropractor. New York Times. 2017 Feb 27;D2.

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	Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Monit. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1387-1307
ISSN (online)	1573-2614
Scope	Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Health Informatics