How to format your references using the Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice. 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]

T.M. Brooks, Conservation: Mind the gaps, Nature 516 (2014) 336–337.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Schreiber, D.A. Rowley, Cancer. Quo vadis, specificity?, Science 319 (2008) 164–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Jing, C.A. Bishop, L.-A. Wu, Nonperturbative dynamical decoupling with random control, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6229.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L.L. Anderson, X. Mao, B.A. Scott, C.M. Crowder, Survival from hypoxia in C. elegans by inactivation of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, Science 323 (2009) 630–633.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Jank, G. Shmueli, Modeling Online Auctions, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

A.M. Adesina, T. Tihan, C.E. Fuller, T.Y. Poussaint, eds., Atlas of Pediatric Brain Tumors, Springer, New York, NY, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Gonnissen, J. Schuermans, C. Politis, S. Schepers, I. Lambrichts, L. Vrielinck, Y. Sun, Success of autogenous tooth transplantation: a retrospective and prospective approach, in: O. Dössel, W.C. Schlegel (Eds.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/11 Biomedical Engineering for Audiology, Ophthalmology, Emergency & Dental Medicine, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 17–20.

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 Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, How to Make a Fire Tornado at Home, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/want-make-fire-tornado-home/ (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, Motor Carrier Safety: Commercial Vehicle Registration Program Has Kept Unsafe Carriers from Operating, but Effectiveness Is Difficult to Measure, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.P. Hood, Male teacher perspective on the recruitment of male elementary teachers: A phenomenological study, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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]

S. Hollander, Late Comeback Falls Short, And Liberty Loses to Shock, New York Times (2000) D4.

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	Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice
Abbreviation	Complement. Ther. Clin. Pract.
ISSN (print)	1744-3881
Scope	Complementary and alternative medicine