How to format your references using the Chiropractic Journal of Australia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chiropractic Journal of Australia. 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

Barbier EB. Disaster Management. A global strategy for protecting vulnerable coastal populations. Science. 2014 Sep 12;345(6202):1250–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zaki N, Mora A. A comparative analysis of computational approaches and algorithms for protein subcomplex identification. Sci Rep. 2014 Mar 3;4:4262.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shenvi N, Roy S, Tully JC. Dynamical steering and electronic excitation in NO scattering from a gold surface. Science. 2009 Nov 6;326(5954):829–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Thacker SA, Robinson P, Abel A, Tweardy DJ. Modulation of the unfolded protein response during hepatocyte and cardiomyocyte apoptosis in trauma/hemorrhagic shock. Sci Rep. 2013 Feb 1;3:1187.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Van Fleet PJ. Discrete Wavelet Transformations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Salakoski T, Ginter F, Pyysalo S, Pahikkala T, editors. Advances in Natural Language Processing: 5th International Conference on NLP, FinTAL 2006 Turku, Finland, August 23-25, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. XVI, 771 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 4139).

A chapter in an edited book

Purton S. Tools and Techniques for Chloroplast Transformation of Chlamydomonas. In: León R, Galván A, Fernández E, editors. Transgenic Microalgae as Green Cell Factories. New York, NY: Springer; 2007. p. 34–45. (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology).

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 Chiropractic Journal of Australia.

Blog post

Andrew E. WHO Approves 15-Minute Ebola Test. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Higher Education: Actions Needed to Improve Access to Federal Financial Assistance for Homeless and Foster Youth. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 May. Report No.: GAO-16-343.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Horton CR. Financial crisis within the nonprofit sector [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2013.

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

Healy P. ‘Brexit’ Revolt Casts a Shadow Over Clinton’s Path of Caution. New York Times. 2016 Jun 25;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Chiropractic Journal of Australia
ISSN (print)	1036-0913
Scope