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]

D. Chandler, Interfaces and the driving force of hydrophobic assembly, Nature 437 (2005) 640–647.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.C. Thomas, M.S. Robinson, Seismic resurfacing by a single impact on the asteroid 433 Eros, Nature 436 (2005) 366–369.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I.M. Howat, I. Joughin, T.A. Scambos, Rapid changes in ice discharge from Greenland outlet glaciers, Science 315 (2007) 1559–1561.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W.-J. Kuo, T. Sjöström, Y.-P. Chen, Y.-H. Wang, C.-Y. Huang, Intuition and deliberation: two systems for strategizing in the brain, Science 324 (2009) 519–522.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Ferguson, B. Schneier, T. Kohno, Cryptography Engineering, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

H.N. Psaraftis, ed., Green Transportation Logistics: The Quest for Win-Win Solutions, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Strauser, M. Naveau, H. Ménager, J. Maupetit, Z. Lacroix, P. Tufféry, Semantic Map for Structural Bioinformatics: Enhanced Service Discovery Based on High Level Concept Ontology, in: Z. Lacroix, M.E. Vidal (Eds.), Resource Discovery: Third International Workshop, RED 2010, Paris, France, November 5, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 57–70.

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, No Giant Leap For Mankind: Why We’ve Been Looking At Human Evolution In The Wrong Way, IFLScience (2016).

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, Federal Research: SEMATECH’s Efforts to Strengthen the U.S. Semiconductor Industry, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Z. Guo, Experimental Analysis of Polymer Nanocomposite Foaming Using Carbon Dioxide, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2008.

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, Fierce Debt Puts Pensions at Risk In Puerto Rico, New York Times (2012) A1.

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