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

Burbine TH. Planetary science. Identifying ancient asteroids. Science. 2008;320(5875):457-458.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hammond EM, Giaccia AJ. Antiangiogenic therapy and p53. Science. 2002;297(5581):471; discussion 471.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wara MW, Ravelo AC, Delaney ML. Permanent El Niño-like conditions during the Pliocene warm period. Science. 2005;309(5735):758-761.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Prasad GVR, Verma O, Sahni A, Parmar V, Khosla A. A Cretaceous hoofed mammal from India. Science. 2007;318(5852):937.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Salles M. Decision-Making and the Information System. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

Bennetzen JL, Hake S, eds. Handbook of Maize: Genetics and Genomics. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Carlson DL. Life Among the Ruins. In: Carlson DL, ed. Volunteers of America. SensePublishers; 2012:51-67.

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

O`Callaghan J. Missions To Study Atmosphere Of Venus And A “Failed Planet” Among New NASA Proposals. IFLScience. October 6, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/missions-study-atmosphere-venus-and-failed-planet-among-new-nasa-proposals/

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. Airline Competition: Cargo Airline Has Enhanced Competition in Hawaii but Faces an Uncertain Future. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Adaligil E. Electron Transfer through Self-Assembled Monolayers of Alkaneselenols and Alkanethiols on Mercury Electrode. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times. April 14, 2017:MM22.

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