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

Campbell G. Distalization of the Drosophila leg by graded EGF-receptor activity. Nature. 2002 Aug;418(6899):781–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rodríguez-Trelles F, Rodríguez MA. Comment on “Global genetic change tracks global climate warming in Drosophila subobscura.” Science. 2007 Mar;315(5818):1497; author reply 1497.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang W, Dunkle JA, Cate JHD. Structures of the ribosome in intermediate states of ratcheting. Science. 2009 Aug;325(5943):1014–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xu G, Cirilli M, Huang Y, Rich RL, Myszka DG, Wu H. Covalent inhibition revealed by the crystal structure of the caspase-8/p35 complex. Nature. 2001 Mar;410(6827):494–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Modarres M, Amiri M, Jackson C. Probabilistic Physics of Failure Approach to Reliability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Defourny B, Terlaky T, editors. Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications: MOPTA, Bethlehem, PA, USA, August 2014 Selected Contributions. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Li X-G, Niculescu S-I, Çela A. Invariance Property: A Unique Idea for Complete Stability Analysis. In: Niculescu S-I, Cela A, editors. Analytic Curve Frequency-Sweeping Stability Tests for Systems with Commensurate Delays. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 47–52.

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

Fang J. Why Parrots Have Unusually Large Brains [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Sep [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-parrots-have-unusually-large-brains/

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. Longer Combination Trucks: Potential Infrastructure Impacts, Productivity Benefits, and Safety Concerns. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sutherland CE. Positive deviance during organization change: Researchers’ social construction of expanded university goals. 2013

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

Hubbard B. As Syrian War Drags On, Assad’s Grip Tightens. New York Times. 2017 Sep;A1.

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
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