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

Gosden C. Archaeology. When humans arrived in the New Guinea Highlands. Science. 2010;330(6000):41-42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maerkl SJ, Quake SR. A systems approach to measuring the binding energy landscapes of transcription factors. Science. 2007;315(5809):233-237.

A journal article with 3 authors

Leopold DA, Bondar IV, Giese MA. Norm-based face encoding by single neurons in the monkey inferotemporal cortex. Nature. 2006;442(7102):572-575.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tanaka M, Collins SR, Toyama BH, Weissman JS. The physical basis of how prion conformations determine strain phenotypes. Nature. 2006;442(7102):585-589.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lévy P. The Semantic Sphere 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Enns RH. Computer Algebra Recipes: An Advanced Guide to Scientific Modeling. (McGuire GC, ed.). Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Johnson ME, Baarli BG. Development of Intertidal Biotas Through Phanerozoic Time. In: Talent JA, ed. Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time. Springer Netherlands; 2012:63-128.

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. Cuckoo Finches Spend Their Whole Lives Disguised As Other Birds. IFLScience. Published June 14, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cuckoo-finches-make-disguise-whole-life-activity/

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. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Assessing the Relationship between Education and the Workforce. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Salamah H. Potential Barriers to Seeking Medical Care: Does Obesity and/or Self-Esteem Result in Decreased Frequency of Necessary Medical Office Visits? Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Williams J. The Left Bank. New York Times. February 10, 2017:BR4.

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