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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Integrative Medicine Reports (IMR). 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

Pockley P. Gene screens for nuclear veterans. Nature 2001;412(6842):5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hilfinger A, Paulsson J. Systems biology: Defiant daughters and coordinated cousins. Nature 2015;519(7544):422–423.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gershman SJ, Horvitz EJ, Tenenbaum JB. Computational rationality: A converging paradigm for intelligence in brains, minds, and machines. Science 2015;349(6245):273–278.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hong HL, Wang Q, Dong C, et al. Understanding the Cu-Zn brass alloys using a short-range-order cluster model: significance of specific compositions of industrial alloys. Sci Rep 2014;4:7065.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond B. Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2016.

An edited book

Shingareva I. Solving Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations with Maple and Mathematica. (Lizárraga-Celaya C. ed). Springer: Vienna; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Paldus J. Perturbation Theory. In: Springer Handbook of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. (Drake G. ed) Springer: New York, NY; 2006; pp. 101–114.

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 Reports.

Blog post

Luntz S. This Sri Lankan Newspaper REPELS Mosquitoes. IFLScience; 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sri-lankan-newspaper-repels-mosquitoes/ [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. Comments on S. 881 and GAO Report on Small-Business Innovation Initiatives. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lim T. Information-Theoretic Aspects of Signal Analysis and Reconstruction. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego: La Jolla, CA; 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

Barron J, Wang V. They Don’t Ride the Subway, Though Its Future Rides on Them. New York Times 2017;A1.

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 Medicine Reports
ISSN (online)	2768-3222
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