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]

Deshaies RJ. Structural biology: Corralling a protein-degradation regulator. Nature 2014;512:145–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kasparian J, Wolf J-P. Applied physics. Laser beams take a curve. Science 2009;324:194–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Venditti C, Meade A, Pagel M. Phylogenies reveal new interpretation of speciation and the Red Queen. Nature 2010;463:349–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Reich PB, Hobbie SE, Lee T, Ellsworth DS, West JB, Tilman D, et al. Nitrogen limitation constrains sustainability of ecosystem response to CO2. Nature 2006;440:922–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lad BK, Shrivastava D, Kulkarni MS. Machine Tool Reliability. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Rosenberg E, DeLong EF, Lory S, Stackebrandt E, Thompson F, editors. The Prokaryotes: Human Microbiology. 4th ed. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pieschl S, Stahl E, Bromme R. Adaptation to Context as Core Component of Self-Regulated Learning: The Example of Complexity and Epistemic Beliefs. In: Azevedo R, Aleven V, editors. International Handbook of Metacognition and Learning Technologies, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 53–65.

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. What Does The Discovery Of Liquid Salty Water On Mars Mean For The Search For Life? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/does-discovery-liquid-salty-water-mars-mean-we-will-find-life/ (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. Summary of a GAO Conference: Helping California Youths with Disabilities Transition to Work or Postsecondary Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Castro R. Faculty unions and their effects on university shared governance. 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]

Greenhouse L. Two Stars, Meeting Across a Bible. New York Times 2009:WK1.

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

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