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

Kummel AC. Chemistry. How to assemble a molecular junction. Science. 2003;302(5642):69-70.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buehler MJ, Gao H. Dynamical fracture instabilities due to local hyperelasticity at crack tips. Nature. 2006;439(7074):307-310.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nishida K, Montagner JP, Kawakatsu H. Global surface wave tomography using seismic hum. Science. 2009;326(5949):112.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Splawski I, Timothy KW, Tateyama M, et al. Variant of SCN5A sodium channel implicated in risk of cardiac arrhythmia. Science. 2002;297(5585):1333-1336.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang Y, Wen F, Xiao M. Quantum Control of Multi-Wave Mixing. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

Klazar M, Kratochvíl J, Loebl M, Matoušek J, Valtr P, Thomas R, eds. Topics in Discrete Mathematics: Dedicated to Jarik Nešetřil on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Vol 26. Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Martinez MJ, Hinde JP. Random Effects Ordinal Time Models for Grouped Toxicological Data from a Biological Control Assay. In: MacKenzie G, Peng D, eds. Statistical Modelling in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics: Selected Papers. Contributions to Statistics. Springer International Publishing; 2014:45-58.

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 the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists.

Blog post

Taub B. Why Did Humans Develop So Many Different Languages? IFLScience. November 11, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/climate-and-environment-may-have-shaped-human-languages/

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. FAA Appropriation Issues. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Baumgarten DK. An Examination of the Relationship between Collegiate Student-Athlete’s Leadership Role in the Athletic Setting and Their Academic Success. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University; 2013.

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

Greenhouse L. Case Touches a 2nd Amendment Nerve. New York Times. November 13, 2007:A20.

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