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

Greider CW. Molecular biology. Wnt regulates TERT--putting the horse before the cart. Science. 2012 Jun;336(6088):1519–20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boyet M, Carlson RW. 142Nd evidence for early (>4.53 Ga) global differentiation of the silicate Earth. Science. 2005 Jul;309(5734):576–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

Adilakshmi T, Bellur DL, Woodson SA. Concurrent nucleation of 16S folding and induced fit in 30S ribosome assembly. Nature. 2008 Oct;455(7217):1268–72.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Keller A, Zhuang H, Chi Q, Vosshall LB, Matsunami H. Genetic variation in a human odorant receptor alters odour perception. Nature. 2007 Sep;449(7161):468–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Mahnken AH, Wilhelm KE, Ricke J, editors. CT- and MR-Guided Interventions in Radiology. 2nd ed. 2013. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Huebner AR, Somparn P, Benjachat T, Leelahavanichkul A, Avihingsanon Y, Fenton RA, et al. Exosomes in Urine Biomarker Discovery. In: Gao Y, editor. Urine Proteomics in Kidney Disease Biomarker Discovery. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015; pp 43–58.

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

Andrew E. What Happens When Lava Meets Ice? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014 Jan [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-happens-when-lava-meets-ice/

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. Detroit City Airport. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tuschall A. Exploration of the Relationship Between Implicit Theory of Intelligence and Employability. 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

Kelly DA. Video Catching Up to Photos When It Comes to Sharing. New York Times. 2006 Jun;C11.

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

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