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

Nachtsheim BJ. Chemistry. Creating antioxidants by oxidation catalysis. Science. 2014 Jul;345(6194):270–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Graaf J, Manna L. Materials science. A roadmap for the assembly of polyhedral particles. Science. 2012 Jul;337(6093):417–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gebauer D, Völkel A, Cölfen H. Stable prenucleation calcium carbonate clusters. Science. 2008 Dec;322(5909):1819–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Miller MM, Melbourne T, Johnson DJ, Sumner WQ. Periodic slow earthquakes from the Cascadia subduction zone. Science. 2002 Mar;295(5564):2423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahmad A. Wireless and Mobile Data Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Takeuchi Y, Iwasa Y, Sato K, editors. Mathematics for Life Science and Medicine. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Mackay IR, Martinez-Neira R, Whittingham S, Nicolau D, Toh B-H. Autoantigenicity of Actin. In: Remedios CG dos, Chhabra D, editors. Actin-Binding Proteins and Disease. New York, NY: Springer; 2008; pp 50–64.

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

Carpineti A. A New Estimation Of The Mass Of The Milky Way [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Jun [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-estimation-mass-milky-way/

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. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Program Could Be Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garapati SH. Analytical and Numerical Modeling of Assembly Procedures of Steel Fulcra of Bascule Bridges. 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

Wagner J. Pitching Took Root After the Troubles Were Left Behind. New York Times. 2017 Mar;D3.

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