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]

Radom L. Obituary: John A. Pople (1925-2004). Nature 2004;428:816.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Riskin DK, Hermanson JW. Biomechanics: independent evolution of running in vampire bats. Nature 2005;434:292.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Stajic J, Coontz R, Osborne I. Superconductivity. Happy 100th, superconductivity! Introduction. Science 2011;332:189.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Niessing J, Ebisch B, Schmidt KE, Niessing M, Singer W, Galuske RAW. Hemodynamic signals correlate tightly with synchronized gamma oscillations. Science 2005;309:948–51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rossetti N. Managing Power Electronics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Lirkov I, Margenov SD, Waśniewski J, editors. Large-Scale Scientific Computing: 10th International Conference, LSSC 2015, Sozopol, Bulgaria, June 8-12, 2015. Revised Selected Papers. vol. 9374. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Albertos P, Sanz L, Mateos I, Sánchez-Vicente I, Lechón T, Fernández-Espinosa G, et al. Gasotransmission of Nitric Oxide (NO) at Early Plant Developmental Stages. In: Lamattina L, García-Mata C, editors. Gasotransmitters in Plants: The Rise of a New Paradigm in Cell Signaling, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 95–116.

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. How Trillions Of Tiny Solar Panels Could Power The Internet Of Things. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-trillions-tiny-solar-panels-could-power-internet-things/ (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. Problems in Providing Education Overseas for Dependents of U.S. Personnel. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Koner KM. The development and validation of an instrument to measure wind ensemble error detection skills among instrumental music educators. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

Moy J. A Bridge That Spans Cultures. New York Times 2017:A17.

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
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