How to format your references using the Integrative and Complementary Therapies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Integrative and Complementary Therapies (ICT). 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

Butler D. Public library set to turn publisher as boycott looms. Nature 2001;412(6846):469.

A journal article with 2 authors

Haug GH, Peterson LC. Obituary: Nicholas Shackleton (1937-2006). Nature 2006;439(7079):928.

A journal article with 3 authors

Anuar TS, Salleh FM, Moktar N. Soil-transmitted helminth infections and associated risk factors in three Orang Asli tribes in Peninsular Malaysia. Sci Rep 2014;4:4101.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ahmadi M, Bruschi DE, Sabín C, et al. Relativistic quantum metrology: exploiting relativity to improve quantum measurement technologies. Sci Rep 2014;4:4996.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fabozzi FJ, Kothari V. Introduction to Securitization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2008.

An edited book

Klingbeil H. Theoretical Foundations of Synchrotron and Storage Ring RF Systems. (Laier U, Lens D. eds). Particle Acceleration and Detection. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Patel M, Nagl S. Complexity and Model Integration: Formalisations. In: The Role of Model Integration in Complex Systems Modelling: An Example from Cancer Biology. (Nagl S. ed). Understanding Complex Systems Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2010; pp. 57–76.

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 Integrative and Complementary Therapies.

Blog post

Fang J. Southern California Mite Is the Fastest Animal on Earth. IFLScience; 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/southern-california-mite-fastest-animal-earth/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Electronic Government: Initiatives Sponsored by the Office of Management and Budget Have Made Mixed Progress. 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

Dylla AG. Synthesis, Characterization and Catalytic Studies of Bimetallic Nanoparticles. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD; 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

Pilon M. The Dazzle of Neon. New York Times 2013;B12.

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	Integrative and Complementary Therapies
ISSN (print)	2768-3192
ISSN (online)	2768-3206
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