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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine (JICM). 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

Robinson K. Personal finance. Young scientists need firm plan to make up for a late start. Science 2006;313(5792):1454–1457.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis CS, McGillicuddy DJ Jr. Transatlantic abundance of the N2-fixing colonial cyanobacterium Trichodesmium. Science 2006;312(5779):1517–1520.

A journal article with 3 authors

DeCoursey TE, Morgan D, Cherny VV. The voltage dependence of NADPH oxidase reveals why phagocytes need proton channels. Nature 2003;422(6931):531–534.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Weismann A, Wenderoth M, Lounis S, et al. Seeing the Fermi surface in real space by nanoscale electron focusing. Science 2009;323(5918):1190–1193.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez A. IP, Ethernet and MPLS Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ USA; 2013.

An edited book

Umeda S, Nakano M, Mizuyama H, et al., (eds). Advances in Production Management Systems: Innovative Production Management Towards Sustainable Growth: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2015, Tokyo, Japan, September 7-9, 2015, Proceedings, Part I. 1st ed. 2015. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Kiyomoto S, Henricksen M, Yap W-S, et al. MASHA – Low Cost Authentication with a New Stream Cipher. In: Information Security: 14th International Conference, ISC 2011, Xi’an, China, October 26-29, 2011. Proceedings. (Lai X, Zhou J, Li H. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2011; pp. 63–78.

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 Integrative and Complementary Medicine.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Watch Live As Two Astronauts Perform A Spacewalk On The ISS Today. IFLScience; 2016. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. The Army’s Multiple Launch Rocket System Is Progressing Well and Merits Continued Support. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Huff JA. Interactions of Glyphosate and Dicamba in Controlling Key Weed Species. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University: Mississippi State, MS; 2010.

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

Mueller B. Black Detectives in New York Say Cronyism Cost Promotions. New York Times 2017;A1.

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 title	Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine
ISSN (print)	2768-3605
ISSN (online)	2768-3613
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