How to format your references using the Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. 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

Turnbull JE. Chemistry. Getting the farm out of pharma for heparin production. Science. 2011;334(6055):462-463.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eccleston A, Skipper M. Transcribing the genome. Nature. 2009;461(7261):185.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tilman D, Reich PB, Knops JMH. Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment. Nature. 2006;441(7093):629-632.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ponton F, Lebarbenchon C, Lefèvre T, et al. Parasitology: parasite survives predation on its host. Nature. 2006;440(7085):756.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell LCR, Hodgetts CTJ, Mahoney CPF, Castle N. Disaster Rules. Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Wilson ME, Trivedi RH, Saunders RA, eds. Pediatric Ophthalmology: Current Thought and A Practical Guide. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Buzdin AA, Lukyanov SA. Stem-Loop Oligonucleotides as Hybridization Probes and Their Practical Use in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine. In: Buzdin AA, Lukyanov SA, eds. Nucleic Acids Hybridization Modern Applications. Springer Netherlands; 2007:85-96.

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 Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing.

Blog post

Andrew E. Cheap Smartphone Dongle Diagnoses HIV And Syphilis In 15 Minutes. IFLScience.

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

Government Accountability Office. Highway Trust Fund: All States Received More Funding Than They Contributed in Highway Taxes from 2005 to 2009. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harvey T. The Box. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 2014.

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

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Arson Suspected In Synagogue Fire. New York Times. May 11, 2005:A9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Abbreviation	Explore (NY)
ISSN (print)	1550-8307
Scope	Analysis Complementary and alternative medicine General Nursing Chiropractics