Accurate referencing is essential to enable proper indexing, linking, and citation tracking through major databases such as Crossref, Scopus, and PubMed. Authors are strongly encouraged to include Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) wherever available, as DOIs provide permanent and reliable links to published content.

Carefully prepared references enhance the credibility of the manuscript and facilitate accurate indexing, discoverability, and citation of the published work.

After final production, each published article is assigned a permanent Digital Object Identifier (DOI), ensuring that the work is instantly citable.

Articles are prepared with metadata to support accurate indexing by search engines and academic databases. Metadata optimization helps ensure that published research can be discovered, cited, shared, and tracked effectively.

Clinical Biomedical Communications (CBC) follows a numbered citation style.

References should be indicated by numbers in square brackets within the text and numbered consecutively in the order in which they first appear in the manuscript.

Where appropriate, author names may be mentioned in the text, but the corresponding reference number must always be included.

Journal titles should be abbreviated according to the List of Title Word Abbreviations (LTWA) to ensure standardization.

Authors are responsible for ensuring consistency, accuracy, and completeness of all reference information.

Authors should ensure that:

• All references cited in the manuscript are included in the reference list.

• All entries in the reference list are cited in the text.

• References cited in the abstract are also provided in full in the reference list.

• Reference details, including authors, titles, journal names, volume, pages, and year, are accurate and complete at the time of submission.

• DOIs are included wherever available.