How to format your references using the Integrative Medicine International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Integrative Medicine International. 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

Apeloig Y. Chemistry. The diamond within a silicon analog of cyclobutadiene. Science. 2011 Mar;331(6022):1277–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Michalski JR, Bleacher JE. Supervolcanoes within an ancient volcanic province in Arabia Terra, Mars. Nature. 2013 Oct;502(7469):47–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kuhn JR, Emilio M, Bush R. Comment on “A large excess in apparent solar oblateness due to surface magnetism.” Science. 2009 May;324(5931):1143; author reply 1143.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Head JF, Inouye S, Teranishi K, Shimomura O. The crystal structure of the photoprotein aequorin at 2.3 A resolution. Nature. 2000 May;405(6784):372–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tran J. The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Gallopoulos E. Parallelism in Matrix Computations. 1st ed. 2016. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Khattab A, Perkins D, Bayoumi M. Opportunistic Spectrum Access Challenges in Distributed Cognitive Radio Networks. In: Perkins D, Bayoumi M, editors. Cognitive Radio Networks: From Theory to Practice. New York, NY: Springer; 2013; pp 33–9.

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 Medicine International.

Blog post

Davis J. The Uncomfortable Truth About The Tiger Trade Ban [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/uncomfortable-truth-about-tiger-trade-ban/

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. NASA Budgets: Gap Between Funding Requirements and Projected Budgets Has Been Reopened. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bouyer J. Temporary Leadership in Athletics: The Experiences of Interim NCAA Directors of Athletics. 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

Shpigel B. Rangers Even Series With Emphatic Win as Lindberg Scores Twice. New York Times. 2017 May;B9.

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	Integrative Medicine International
Abbreviation	Integr. Med. Int.
ISSN (print)	2296-7389
ISSN (online)	2296-7362
Scope