How to format your references using the International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine. 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

[1]

Melton L. Protein arrays: proteomics in multiplex. Nature 2004;429:101–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Weimerskirch H, Wilson RP. Oceanic respite for wandering albatrosses. Nature 2000;406:955–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Beatty CD, Beirinckx K, Sherratt TN. The evolution of müllerian mimicry in multispecies communities. Nature 2004;431:63–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang H, Gilbert B, Huang F, Banfield JF. Water-driven structure transformation in nanoparticles at room temperature. Nature 2003;424:1025–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kossiakoff A, Sweet WN. Systems Engineering Principles and Practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Kita R, Dobashi T, editors. Nano/Micro Science and Technology in Biorheology: Principles, Methods, and Applications. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Girejko E, Pawłuszewicz E, Wyrwas M. The Z-Transform Method for Sequential Fractional Difference Operators. In: Domek S, Dworak P, editors. Theoretical Developments and Applications of Non-Integer Order Systems: 7th Conference on Non-Integer Order Calculus and Its Applications, Szczecin, Poland, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 57–67.

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 International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. This Is Our First Image Of The TRAPPIST-1 System. IFLScience 2017.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Drug Control: Status of Plan to Use Federal Research and Development Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Unison-Pace WJ. Investigating generational differences of perceived uncivilized behaviors between students and faculty in nursing education. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2015.

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

[1]

Sabrina Tavernise With. The Survivors Dribble Out, All With a Story to Tell. New York Times 2002:A10.

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	International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine
Abbreviation	Int. J. Osteopath. Med.
ISSN (print)	1746-0689
Scope	Complementary and alternative medicine