How to format your references using the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative 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]

Knudsen EI. Instructed learning in the auditory localization pathway of the barn owl. Nature 2002;417:322–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rehwinkel J, Reis e Sousa C. RIGorous detection: exposing virus through RNA sensing. Science 2010;327:284–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kagawa F, Miyagawa K, Kanoda K. Unconventional critical behaviour in a quasi-two-dimensional organic conductor. Nature 2005;436:534–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

de Fockert JW, Rees G, Frith CD, Lavie N. The role of working memory in visual selective attention. Science 2001;291:1803–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Barker RM, Puckett JA. Design of Highway Bridges. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Ralph C, Silberstein M, Thakre PR, Singh R, editors. Mechanics of Composite and Multi-functional Materials, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kuo N-C. Achieving Education for All –Together. In: Tatto MT, editor. Learning and Doing Policy Analysis in Education: Examining Diverse Approaches to Increasing Educational Access, Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2012, p. 93–115.

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 Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Mummified Fetus Reveals Ancient Surgery While in Mother’s Womb. IFLScience 2014.

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. Information Technology: FBI Is Building Management Capabilities Essential to Successful System Deployments, but Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Meijer K. Let the Gods Dance: Transformation Through Haitian Dance. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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]

Shpigel B. Red Sox Muster a Threat After Porcello Stumbles, but the Indians Hold On. New York Times 2016:B8.

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	Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Ayurveda Integr. Med.
ISSN (print)	0975-9476
Scope	Complementary and alternative medicine Drug Discovery