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

Rusbridger A. Scientists must speak up on fossil-fuel divestment. Nature. 2015;520(7547):265.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reilly SM, White TD. Hypaxial motor patterns and the function of epipubic bones in primitive mammals. Science. 2003;299(5605):400-402.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lindström NO, Hohenstein P, Davies JA. Nephrons require Rho-kinase for proximal-distal polarity development. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2692.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jung HY, Chun H, Park S, et al. Liquid metal nanodroplet dynamics inside nanocontainers. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2588.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burkinshaw SM. Physico-Chemical Aspects of Textile Coloration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Bleyer WA, Barr RD, eds. Cancer in Adolescents and Young Adults. Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Garima Yadav, Saurabh Maheshwari, Anjali Agarwal. Multi-domain Image Enhancement of Foggy Images Using Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization Method. In: Afzalpulkar N, Srivastava V, Singh G, Bhatnagar D, eds. Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Cognizance in Wireless Communication & Image Processing: ICRCWIP-2014. Springer India; 2016:31-38.

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

Carpineti A. Could Dark Matter Actually Just Be Black Holes? IFLScience. May 26, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-dark-matter-be-actually-just-black-holes/

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. States’ Average College Tuition. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Milner M. An Evaluation of the Influence of Case Method Instruction on the Reflective Thinking of MSW Students. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 2009.

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

Belcher D. Yuri Lyubimov, Experimental Director of the Russian Stage, Is Dead at 97. New York Times. October 6, 2014:A24.

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