How to format your references using the Journal of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists. 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	Download the output style file
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

Schaetz T. Quantum physics: Entanglement beyond identical ions. Nature. 2015;528(7582):337-338.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zaccolo M, Pozzan T. Discrete microdomains with high concentration of cAMP in stimulated rat neonatal cardiac myocytes. Science. 2002;295(5560):1711-1715.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zinchuk V, Wu Y, Grossenbacher-Zinchuk O. Bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative colocalization results in fluorescence microscopy studies. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1365.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Grupe A, Germer S, Usuka J, et al. In silico mapping of complex disease-related traits in mice. Science. 2001;292(5523):1915-1918.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gamenara D, Seoane GA, Saenz-Méndez P, de María PD. Redox Biocatalysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Shi YQ, ed. Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security III. Vol 4920. Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Shi Y, Wu G, Song Z, Shen D. Dense Deformation Reconstruction via Sparse Coding. In: Wang F, Shen D, Yan P, Suzuki K, eds. Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: Third International Workshop, MLMI 2012, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2012, Nice, France, October 1, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2012:36-44.

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 the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists.

Blog post

Fang J. Robotic Arms and Hands That Can Feel. IFLScience.

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. Regulating Domestic Telecommunications Common Carriers. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zimmerman TF. A Descriptive Review of the Development and Implementation of a Funding Model for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System: The First 10 Years, 1998–2008. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University; 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

Saslow L. Superintendent Takes On Ailing Roosevelt. New York Times. October 28, 2007:14LI2.

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 the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists
Abbreviation	J. Am. Coll. Clin. Wound Spec.
ISSN (print)	2213-5103
Scope