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

Varis O. Resources: Curb vast water use in central Asia. Nature. 2014;514(7520):27-29.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dotto GP, Cotsarelis G. Developmental biology. Rac1 up for epidermal stem cells. Science. 2005;309(5736):890-891.

A journal article with 3 authors

Basch ML, Bronner-Fraser M, García-Castro MI. Specification of the neural crest occurs during gastrulation and requires Pax7. Nature. 2006;441(7090):218-222.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dong KF, Li HH, Peng YG, Ju G, Chow GM, Chen JS. Nanogranular TiN-ZrO₂ intermediate layer induced improvement of isolation and grain size of FePt thin films. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5607.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauldry WC. Introduction to Real Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Gayrard V, Kistler N, eds. Correlated Random Systems: Five Different Methods: CIRM Jean-Morlet Chair, Spring 2013. Vol 2143. Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Kapur PK, Pham H, Gupta A, Jha PC. Change-Point Models. In: Pham H, Gupta A, Jha PC, eds. Software Reliability Assessment with OR Applications. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer; 2011:171-213.

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

Andrew D. What Makes An Animal Clever? Research Shows Intelligence Is not Just About Using Tools. IFLScience. Published May 20, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-makes-an-animal-clever-research-shows-intelligence-is-not-just-about-using-tools/

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. Library Services for Those with Disabilities: Additional Steps Needed to Ease Access to Services and Modernize Technology. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Terrell ND. Exact Solutions to Combinatorial Optimizations and the Traveling Baseball Fan Problem. 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

Kishkovsky S. New Kirov Home in Golden Glass. New York Times. July 1, 2003:E5.

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