How to format your references using the Advances in Integrative Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Integrative 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	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]

R. Ranganathan, Cell biology. A matter of life or death, Science. 299 (2003) 1677–1679.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Schulz, P. Rehling, Cell biology. Powering the cell cycle, Science. 346 (2014) 1059–1060.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Totan, E. Güler, M.S. Dervişoğulları, Brilliant Blue G assisted epiretinal membrane surgery, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3956.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.M. Stevenson, R.J. Young, P. Atkinson, K. Cooper, D.A. Ritchie, A.J. Shields, A semiconductor source of triggered entangled photon pairs, Nature. 439 (2006) 179–182.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V.R. Meyer, Pitfalls and Errors of HPLC in Pictures, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M.N. Ellanti, Next Generation Transport Networks: Data, Management, and Control Planes, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V.K. Sharma, C. He, R.-A. Doong, D.D. Dionysiou, Water Depollution Using Ferrites Photocatalysts, in: E. Lichtfouse, J. Schwarzbauer, D. Robert (Eds.), Green Materials for Energy, Products and Depollution, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013: pp. 135–150.

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 Advances in Integrative Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Scientists Discover Strange New Brain Cell Shape, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-discover-strange-new-brain-cell-shape/ (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, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Status of Medicare Providers Unknown, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E. Dimick, A Comparative Study on Pheromone Communication between Schizophyllum species, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2015.

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]

M.W. Walsh, A Hurdle to Transparency, New York Times. (2015) B1.

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	Advances in Integrative Medicine
Abbreviation	Adv. Integr. Med.
ISSN (print)	2212-9588
Scope	Complementary and alternative medicine