How to format your references using the Journal of Chiropractic Humanities citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Chiropractic Humanities. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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.
Dolgin E. Mental health: Monsters in the mirror. Nature. 2015;526(7572):S14-5.
A journal article with 2 authors
1.
Becher OJ, Wechsler-Reya RJ. Cancer. For pediatric glioma, leave no histone unturned. Science. 2014;346(6216):1458-1459.
A journal article with 3 authors
1.
Rulifson EJ, Kim SK, Nusse R. Ablation of insulin-producing neurons in flies: growth and diabetic phenotypes. Science. 2002;296(5570):1118-1120.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
1.
Ji S, Shi T, Qiu X, et al. A route to phase controllable Cu2ZnSn(S(1-x)Se(x))4 nanocrystals with tunable energy bands. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2733.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1.
Sallaberry C. Geographical Information Retrieval in Textual Corpora. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.
An edited book
1.
Sauer MV, ed. Principles of Oocyte and Embryo Donation. 2nd ed. 2013. Springer; 2013.
A chapter in an edited book
1.
Naunheimer H, Bertsche B, Ryborz J, Novak W. Power Conversion: Selecting the Ratios. In: Bertsche B, Ryborz J, Novak W, eds. Automotive Transmissions: Fundamentals, Selection, Design and Application. Springer; 2011:100-114.

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 Chiropractic Humanities.

Blog post
1.
Davis J. Ancient Bird Fossils Reveal What The Arctic May Have Looked Like 90 Million Years Ago. IFLScience. December 20, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancient-bird-fossils-reveal-what-the-arctic-may-have-looked-like-90-million-years-ago/

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. The Audit Function in the Automatic Data Processing System. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1966.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1.
Coulibaly I. Influence of Gender and Age on the Performance of a PBIS Program: Quantitative Analysis of Secondary Data from a Midwestern Suburban Public Middle School. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood 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.
Schwartz J. Measure in Florida That Claims to Support Solar Power Could Discourage It. New York Times. October 27, 2016:A17.

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 titleJournal of Chiropractic Humanities
AbbreviationJ. Chiropr. Humanit.
ISSN (print)1556-3499
ScopeComplementary and alternative medicine
Chiropractics

Other styles