How to format your references using the Digital Chinese Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Digital Chinese 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	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

[1]

J.A. Slavin, Planetary science. A dynamic twist in the tail, Science 336 (2012) 548–549.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T.C. Rick, J.M. Erlandson, Anthropology. Coastal exploitation, Science 325 (2009) 952–953.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.A. Zwaan, P.G. van Dokkum, M.A. Verheijen, Hydrogen 21-centimeter emission from a galaxy at cosmological distance, Science 293 (2001) 1800–1802.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Ding, K.J. Wang, W. Wang, D.F. Zhu, C.Y. Yin, J.S. Liu, Experimental verification and investigation of disks scattering slab modes in metal-dielectric heterostructures, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2493.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Cazdyn, I. Szeman, After Globalization, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

V. Gilsanz, Hand Bone Age: A Digital Atlas of Skeletal Maturity, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Deisenhofer, P. Lemmens, Optical Techniques for Systems with Competing Interactions, in: C. Lacroix, P. Mendels, F. Mila (Eds.), Introduction to Frustrated Magnetism: Materials, Experiments, Theory, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 107–128.

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 Digital Chinese Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Check Out This Live stream Of Deep Underwater Exploration Around Hawaii, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Project SAFECOM: Key Cross-Agency Emergency Communications Effort Requires Stronger Collaboration, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N. Pesochinsky, Effect of Refractive Vision Correction of Myopia and Hyperopia Through Laser Surgery (LASIK & PRK) on Symptoms of Depression, Stress Perception and Self-esteem in Adults (22-55), Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2019.

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. Cooper, Spotlight on a Diva, With Bull’s-Eye Precision, New York Times (2017) C5.

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	Digital Chinese Medicine
ISSN (print)	2589-3777
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