How to format your references using the Acupuncture in Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acupuncture in Medicine. 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 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

May R. Risk and uncertainty. Nature. 2001;411:891.

A journal article with 2 authors

Harper GR Jr, Pfennig DW. Selection overrides gene flow to break down maladaptive mimicry. Nature. 2008;451:1103–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee YK, Lee H, Park JY. Tandem-structured, hot electron based photovoltaic cell with double Schottky barriers. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4580.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mecklenbräuker I, Kalled SL, Leitges M, et al. Regulation of B-cell survival by BAFF-dependent PKCdelta-mediated nuclear signalling. Nature. 2004;431:456–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mang T, Bobzin K, Bartels T. Industrial Tribology. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA 2010.

An edited book

Fitoussi A, Berry MG, Couturaud B, et al., editors. Oncoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery for Breast Cancer: The Institut Curie Experience. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Shaw IS, Luo D. Citizen Journalism, Cyber-Activism, and ‘Crowdsourcing’: Discussing the Sacking of Sierra Leone’s Vice President Sam Sumana on Facebook and Twitter. In: Mutsvairo B, ed. Digital Activism in the Social Media Era: Critical Reflections on Emerging Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2016:95–112.

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 in Medicine.

Blog post

Taub B. 2,500-Year-Old Man Wrapped In Cannabis “Shroud” Discovered In Ancient Chinese Tomb. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/2500-year-old-man-wrapped-in-cannabis-shroud-discovered-in-ancient-chinese-tomb/ (accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. FAA Encountering Problems in Acquiring Major Automated Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chryssis AN. Design and fabrication of high-performance interband cascade tunable external cavity lasers. 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

Dinardo K. Kevin Carr Will Stop Running When He Circles the World. New York Times. 2014;TR3.

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 in Medicine
Abbreviation	Acupunct. Med.
ISSN (print)	0964-5284
ISSN (online)	1759-9873
Scope	General Medicine Complementary and alternative medicine Clinical Neurology