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

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

Gonzalez C. Undergraduate research, graduate mentoring, and the university’s mission. Science 2001;293:1624–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Raine NE, Gill RJ. Ecology: Tasteless pesticides affect bees in the field. Nature 2015;521:38–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fotso H, Mikelsons K, Freericks JK. Thermalization of field driven quantum systems. Sci Rep 2014;4:4699.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Weiss J, Pyrski M, Jacobi E, Bufe B, Willnecker V, Schick B, et al. Loss-of-function mutations in sodium channel Nav1.7 cause anosmia. Nature 2011;472:186–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sadr A. Interest Rate Swaps and Their Derivatives. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Gibbons J, editor. Generic and Indexed Programming: International Spring School, SSGIP 2010, Oxford, UK, March 22-26, 2010, Revised Lectures. vol. 7470. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lisahunter, Emerald E, Martin G. Where Do You Stand: Philosophical Orientations. In: Emerald E, Martin G, editors. Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World: Social Change Through the Cultural Professions, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013, p. 45–58.

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 Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. India: The Pharmacy Of The World Where ‘Crazy Drug combinations’ Go Unregulated. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/india-pharmacy-world-where-crazy-drug-combinations-go-unregulated/ (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. Commercial Drivers: Certification Process for Drivers with Serious Medical Conditions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Haile MD. A mental health community outreach and education program for Eritrean immigrants: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Wagner J. Conforto Set For Surgery; Mets Drop 2. New York Times 2017:SP3.

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 Integrative Medicine
ISSN (print)	2095-4964
Scope