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

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

Allen M. Liability for climate change. Nature. 2003;421(6926):891-892.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hanson R, Awschalom DD. Coherent manipulation of single spins in semiconductors. Nature. 2008;453(7198):1043-1049.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wittkopp PJ, Haerum BK, Clark AG. Evolutionary changes in cis and trans gene regulation. Nature. 2004;430(6995):85-88.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bor D, Rothen N, Schwartzman DJ, Clayton S, Seth AK. Adults can be trained to acquire synesthetic experiences. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7089.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson RJ, Groundwater PW, Todd A, Worsley AJ. Antibacterial Agents. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Wittbrodt E. Dynamics of Flexible Multibody Systems: Rigid Finite Element Method. (Adamiec-Wójcik I, Wojciech S, eds.). Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu W, Cai W, Cui B, Wang M. Synthetic Evaluation Method of Electronic Visual Display Terminal Visual Performance Based on the Letter Search Task. In: Shumaker R, Lackey S, eds. Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: 7th International Conference, VAMR 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing; 2015:30-38.

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 Research.

Blog post

Luntz S. Bees Get A Buzz From Caffeinated Flowers. IFLScience. October 15, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bees-get-buzz-caffeinated-flowers-embargoed-thursday-1600-gmt/

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. Technology Transfer: Several Factors Have Led to a Decline in Partnerships at DOE’s Laboratories. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Westgate M. La Boutique Fantasque: A Full Score Edition for Wind Band. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati; 2009.

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

Davey M, Walsh MW. Billions in Debt, Detroit Tumbles Into Insolvency. New York Times. July 18, 2013: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 Research
Abbreviation	Integr. Med. Res.
ISSN (print)	2213-4220
Scope