How to format your references using the Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences. 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

Price C. Evidence for a link between global lightning activity and upper tropospheric water vapour. Nature. 2000;406(6793):290-293.

A journal article with 2 authors

Flanagan JR, Johansson RS. Action plans used in action observation. Nature. 2003;424(6950):769-771.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen S, Zhang YE, Long M. New genes in Drosophila quickly become essential. Science. 2010;330(6011):1682-1685.

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

Cornier J, Owen A, Kwade A, Van de Voorde M. Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology: Innovation and Production. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

Shen L, Ye K, Mao C, eds. Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate. Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Zatt B, Shafique M, Bampi S, Henkel J. Energy-Efficient Architectures for Multiview Video Coding. In: Shafique M, Bampi S, Henkel J, eds. 3D Video Coding for Embedded Devices: Energy Efficient Algorithms and Architectures. Springer; 2013:127-150.

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 Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences.

Blog post

Davis J. Highest Living Plants Discovered Six Kilometers Up A Mountain. IFLScience. December 7, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/highest-living-plants-discovered-six-kilometers-up-a-mountain/

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. An Incident of Contamination of Livestock Feed and Certain Consumer Products. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Luna D. Preventing Obesity among Foster Youth through Nutrition and Outdoor Activities: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Gordon MR, Nechepurenko I. U.S. Is Warned After It Downs Syrian Fighter. New York Times. June 19, 2017:A1.

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 Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences
Abbreviation	J. Tradit. Chin. Med. Sci.
ISSN (print)	2095-7548
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