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]

Gogotsi Y. Materials science. High-temperature rubber made from carbon nanotubes. Science 2010;330:1332–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kropman MF, Bakker HJ. Dynamics of water molecules in aqueous solvation shells. Science 2001;291:2118–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rossa FD, Dercole F, Piccardi C. Profiling core-periphery network structure by random walkers. Sci Rep 2013;3:1467.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wettey FR, Hawkins SFC, Stewart A, Luzio JP, Howard JC, Jackson AP. Controlled elimination of clathrin heavy-chain expression in DT40 lymphocytes. Science 2002;297:1521–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pan GW. Wavelets in Electromagnetics and Device Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2003.

An edited book

[1]

Soetaert K, Herman PMJ, editors. A Practical Guide to Ecological Modelling: Using R as a Simulation Platform. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Panakhyo M, Jacobi K. Limited Circumstances: Creating a Better Understanding of Prehistoric Peoples Through the Reanalysis of Collections of Commingled Human Remains. In: Osterholtz AJ, editor. Theoretical Approaches to Analysis and Interpretation of Commingled Human Remains, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 75–96.

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]

Taub B. Researchers And Politicians Slam The War On Drugs As A Failure. IFLScience 2016.

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. TANF and Child Welfare Programs: Increased Data Sharing Could Improve Access to Benefits and Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Coles J. The Balancing of Parental Support and Pressure in Fostering Collegiate Athletes. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, 2017.

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]

Borden S. A Photo Finish Too Close to Call, Even by Camera. New York Times 2012:A1.

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