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

Dance A. Neuroscience: Connectomes make the map. Nature. 2015 Oct 1;526(7571):147–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Romney DK, Miller SJ. Chemistry. Climbing Jacob’s ladder. Science. 2015 Feb 20;347(6224):829.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li YC, Cheng TH, Gartenberg MR. Establishment of transcriptional silencing in the absence of DNA replication. Science. 2001 Jan 26;291(5504):650–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jones RB, Gordus A, Krall JA, MacBeath G. A quantitative protein interaction network for the ErbB receptors using protein microarrays. Nature. 2006 Jan 12;439(7073):168–74.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vilensky JA, Robertson WM, Suárez-Quian CA. The Clinical Anatomy of the Cranial Nerves. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Rimdusit S. Alloys and Composites of Polybenzoxazines: Properties and Applications. Jubsilp C, Tiptipakorn S, editors. Singapore: Springer; 2013. IX, 159 p. (Engineering Materials).

A chapter in an edited book

Lin JL, Yan HS. Reconstruction Design Methodology. In: Yan HS, editor. Decoding the Mechanisms of Antikythera Astronomical Device. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. p. 85–113.

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

Taub B. Tarantula Venom Helps Reveal How We Sense Pain [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tarantula-venom-helps-reveal-how-we-sense-pain/

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. U.S. Infrastructure: Agencies’ Approaches to Developing Investment Estimates Vary. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001 Jul. Report No.: GAO-01-835.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kutash M. The Relationship Between Nurses’ Emotional Intelligence and Patient Outcomes [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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

Kanter J. E.U. Plans Big Increase in Military Spending. New York Times. 2016 Nov 30;A12.

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