How to format your references using the Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative 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	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]

E. R. H. Fuchs, “Economics. Global manufacturing and the future of technology,” Science, vol. 345, no. 6196, pp. 519–520, Aug. 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. F. Schultz and S. A. Kay, “Circadian clocks in daily and seasonal control of development,” Science, vol. 301, no. 5631, pp. 326–328, Jul. 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Parens, J. Johnston, and J. Moses, “Ethics. Do we need ‘synthetic bioethics’?,” Science, vol. 321, no. 5895, p. 1449, Sep. 2008.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. A. Filatov, F. Monéger, I. Negrutiu, and D. Charlesworth, “Low variability in a Y-linked plant gene and its implications for Y-chromosome evolution,” Nature, vol. 404, no. 6776, pp. 388–390, Mar. 2000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. H. Kaisler, Software Paradigms. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

An edited book

[1]

S. Lara-Cinisomo and K. L. Wisner, Eds., Perinatal Depression among Spanish-Speaking and Latin American Women: A Global Perspective on Detection and Treatment. New York, NY: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Muñoz, I. L. Egusquiza, A. del Campo, D. Seidel, and J. G. Muga, “Dwell-Time Distributions in Quantum Mechanics,” in Time in Quantum Mechanics - Vol. 2, G. Muga, A. Ruschhaupt, and A. del Campo, Eds. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009, pp. 97–125.

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 Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, “IBM Reveals Incredible New Brain-Inspired Chip,” IFLScience, 08-Aug-2014. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/ibm-reveals-incredible-new-brain-inspired-chip/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-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, “Regulatory Programs: Opportunities to Enhance Oversight of the Real Estate Appraisal Industry,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-04-580T, Mar. 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Fadamin, “Synthesis, Characterization and Electrochemistry of the Ruthenium Schiff Base Complex [(Saloph)Ru(NO)Cl],” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2017.

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. Kishkovsky, “Investors in Russian Gas Venture Clash,” New York Times, p. C8, 31-May-2008.

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	Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Abbreviation	Evid. Based. Complement. Alternat. Med.
ISSN (print)	1741-427X
ISSN (online)	1741-4288
Scope	Complementary and alternative medicine