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]

S.C. Kogan, Medicine. Poisonous contacts, Science 328 (2010) 184–185.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Choi, P.T.C. So, Improving femtosecond laser pulse delivery through a hollow core photonic crystal fiber for temporally focused two-photon endomicroscopy, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6626.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Blundy, K. Cashman, M. Humphreys, Magma heating by decompression-driven crystallization beneath andesite volcanoes, Nature 443 (2006) 76–80.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Yu, Y. Zhang, B. Zhang, J. Liu, Enhanced antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles/halloysite nanotubes/graphene nanocomposites with sandwich-like structure, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4551.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Wang, K.C. Tan, Modern Industrial Automation Software Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

C.T. Lee, D.P. Wood, eds., Bladder Cancer: Diagnosis, Therapeutics, and Management, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Chasanis, A. Likas, N. Galatsanos, A Support Vector Machine Approach for Video Shot Detection, in: G.A. Tsihrintzis, M. Virvou, R.J. Howlett, L.C. Jain (Eds.), New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 45–54.

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]

A. Carpineti, New Planetary Model Suggests More Gas Giant Planets Are Yet To Be Found, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-planetary-model-suggests-more-gas-giant-planets-are-yet-to-be-found/ (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, Space Transportation: NASA Has No Firm Need for Increasingly Costly Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle, 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]

C.V. Kaiser, “Maps of the world[s] in its becoming[s]”: Seeking queer potentialities in the post-apocalyptic narrative, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

L. Herskovic, Who’s That Cat?, New York Times (2017) A21.

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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