How to format your references using the Acupuncture and Related Therapies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acupuncture and Related Therapies. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

M.F. Good, Immunology. Pasteur approach to a malaria vaccine may take the lead, Science 341 (2013) 1352–1353.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Alkhatib, A. Nayfeh, A complete physical germanium-on-silicon quantum dot self-assembly process, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2099.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C. Lupp, M. Skipper, U. Weiss, Gut microbes and health, Nature 489 (2012) 219.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.G. Dickinson, C.D.L. Orme, K.B. Suttle, G.M. Mace, Separating sensitivity from exposure in assessing extinction risk from climate change, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6898.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.-Z. Du, K.-I. Ko, Theory of Computational Complexity, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

M. Cigola, ed., Distinguished Figures in Descriptive Geometry and Its Applications for Mechanism Science: From the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Crespi Reghizzi, L. Breveglieri, A. Morzenti, Pushdown Automata and Parsing, in: L. Breveglieri, A. Morzenti (Eds.), Formal Languages and Compilation, Springer, London, 2013: pp. 141–291.

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 Acupuncture and Related Therapies.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Watch What Happens When You Shoot Potassium Bullets Into Water, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Higher Education: Education Should Strengthen Oversight of Schools and Accreditors [Reissued on January 22, 2015], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

X. Pan, Using Structural Information in Modeling and Multiple Alignments for Phylogenetics, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2008.

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]

G.G. Gustines, ‘Dark Knight Returns’ Cover Art Goes for Sale, New York Times (2013) C3.

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	Acupuncture and Related Therapies
Abbreviation	Acupunct. Relat. Ther.
ISSN (print)	2211-7660
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