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

Dorn GW 2nd. Medicine. Refugee receptors switch sides. Science. 2010;327:1586–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Parsons J, Wand Y. A question of class. Nature. 2008;455:1040–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mathew-Fenn RS, Das R, Harbury PAB. Remeasuring the double helix. Science. 2008;322:446–9.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mercado LM, Bellouin N, Sitch S, et al. Impact of changes in diffuse radiation on the global land carbon sink. Nature. 2009;458:1014–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karr R. Lead, Sell, or Get Out of the Way. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009.

An edited book

Shen B. Modelling Rock Fracturing Processes: A Fracture Mechanics Approach Using FRACOD. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Azaiez S, Doligez D, Lemerre M, et al. Proving Determinacy of the PharOS Real-Time Operating System. In: Butler M, Schewe K-D, Mashkoor A, et al., eds. Abstract State Machines, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, and Z: 5th International Conference, ABZ 2016, Linz, Austria, May 23-27, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2016:70–85.

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

Andrews R. Extremely Rare Grizzly-Polar Bear Hybrid Shot In Canadian Arctic. IFLScience. 2016. (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. Space Industrialization Act of 1980. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wenzel AB. Learning the culture of teaching: A middle school perspective. 2009.

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

Saslow L. On the Beach, the Yoga Poses Really Flow. New York Times. 2008;LI2.

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