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]

Gewin V. Baby blues. Nature 2005;433:780–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Person AL, Raman IM. Purkinje neuron synchrony elicits time-locked spiking in the cerebellar nuclei. Nature 2011;481:502–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Franke KJ, Schulze G, Pascual JI. Competition of superconducting phenomena and Kondo screening at the nanoscale. Science 2011;332:940–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Allison TJ, Winter CC, Fournié JJ, Bonneville M, Garboczi DN. Structure of a human gammadelta T-cell antigen receptor. Nature 2001;411:820–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cohen C. Business Intelligence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Sun J, Jiao W, Wu H, Lu M, editors. China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2014 Proceedings: Volume I. vol. 303. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Geller W. Case Studies and Regional Surveys. In: Geller W, Schultze M, Kleinmann R, Wolkersdorfer C, editors. Acidic Pit Lakes: The Legacy of Coal and Metal Surface Mines, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 265–435.

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]

Andrew E. Trial Suggests Medical Marijuana Could Offer Hope For Children With Severe Epilepsy. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/trial-suggests-medical-marijuana-could-offer-hope-children-severe-epilepsy/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. School Lunch Program: Cafeteria Managers’ Views on Food Wasted by Students. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

McKinley KJ. Exploring the efficiency and effectiveness of teacher selection tools: The effects on the total group with a focus on the experience sub-groups. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, 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

[1]

Vecsey G. Minaya Still Watches the Mets, Who Failed on His Watch. New York Times 2011:B12.

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

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