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]

E. Pain, The class of 2005. Spain: a physicist keen to put things in order, Science 310 (2005) 520–521.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.J. Saltmarsh, D. Shapira, Questions regarding nuclear emissions in cavitation experiments, Science 297 (2002) 1603; discussion 1603.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V. Burkett, C.G. Groat, D. Reed, Hurricanes not the key to a sustainable coast, Science 315 (2007) 1366–1368.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P.-E. Lim, J. Tan, P. Eamsobhana, H.S. Yong, Distinct genetic clades of Malaysian Copera damselflies and the phylogeny of platycnemine subfamilies, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2977.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G.M. Vitetta, D.P. Taylor, G. Colavolpe, F. Pancaldi, P.A. Martin, Wireless Communications, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

K. Saeed, W. Homenda, eds., Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management: 14th IFIP TC 8 International Conference, CISIM 2015, Warsaw, Poland, September 24-26, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W.K. Härdle, L. Simar, Theory of the Multinormal, in: L. Simar (Ed.), Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015: pp. 183–199.

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

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B. Taub, Test Can Calculate A Person’s Chances Of Waking From A Coma, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/test-can-calculate-person-s-chances-waking-coma/ (accessed October 30, 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, Federal Autism Activities: Agencies Are Encouraging Early Identification and Providing Services, and Recent Actions Could Improve Coordination, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G.C. Newberry, Students’ experiences with simulation education, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2014.

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]

J. Otis, Eritrean Couple’s Reunion, Decades in the Making, New York Times (2016) A29.

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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