How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Clinical Movement Disorders. 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. Kondro W. CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES: Funding of 2000 Slots Sets Off Musical Chairs. Science. 2000;288:2112.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gibbs RA, Nelson DL. Human genetics. Primate shadow play. Science. 2003;299:1331–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. van de Waal E, Borgeaud C, Whiten A. Potent social learning and conformity shape a wild primate’s foraging decisions. Science. 2013;340:483–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Peng Y, Ellis BD, Wang X, Fettinger JC, Power PP. Reversible reactions of ethylene with distannynes under ambient conditions. Science. 2009;325:1668–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Grose M. Construction Law in the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Busch P. Quantum Measurement. Lahti P, Pellonpää J-P, Ylinen K, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Akgün M, Kavak P, Demirci H. New Results on the Key Scheduling Algorithm of RC4. In: Chowdhury DR, Rijmen V, Das A, editors. Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2008: 9th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Kharagpur, India, December 14-17, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 40–52.

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 Movement Disorders.

Blog post

1. Taub B. Underage Abortion Leads To More Advantages Than Teenage Motherhood, Study Suggests [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/underage-abortion-leads-more-advantages-teenage-motherhood-study-suggests/. 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. S. 1657 and H.R. 4564, Research and Development Acts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981 Sep. Report No.: 116442.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Krauss WF. The role of a middle management team during a directed restructuring: A case study of a government agency using Stones’ strong structuration [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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. Philadelphia CW, April 28-A single goal scored with their goaltender sprawled on his back ended the Islanders’ season tonight., Special to the New York Times In the type of grind-it-out hockey that was the trademark of the Islanders’ dynasty, The Philadelphia Flyers Defeated, 1-, captured the Patrick division title by taking the four-of-seven playoff series four games to one. The Flyers will now advance to the semifinal round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Montreal Canadiens or Quebec Nordiques., et al. FLYERS ELIMINATE ISLANDERS, 1-0, ON SINISALO’S GOAL. New York Times. 1985 Apr 29;C1.

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 Movement Disorders
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Mov. Disord.
ISSN (online)	2054-7072
Scope