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

Ellison AM. Political borders should not hamper wildlife. Nature. 2014;508(7494):9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kosten S, Lacerot G. Life in science. It takes a village. Science. 2009;324(5932):1265.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kwak SH, Shen R, Schiefelbein J. Positional signaling mediated by a receptor-like kinase in Arabidopsis. Science. 2005;307(5712):1111-1113.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lücke B, Scherer M, Kruse J, et al. Twin matter waves for interferometry beyond the classical limit. Science. 2011;334(6057):773-776.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sturges RH Jr. Practical Field Robotics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Horimoto K, Regensburger G, Rosenkranz M, Yoshida H, eds. Algebraic Biology: Third International Conference, AB 2008, Castle of Hagenberg, Austria, July 31-August 2, 2008 Proceedings. Vol 5147. Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Nikolaou IE, Evangelinos KI. A Framework for Evaluating the Social Responsibility Quality of Reverse Logistics. In: Nikolaidis Y, ed. Quality Management in Reverse Logistics: A Broad Look on Quality Issues and Their Interaction with Closed-Loop Supply Chains. Springer; 2013:53-72.

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

Andrew D. Watch A Man Walk On Lava. IFLScience. December 15, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/watch-a-man-walk-on-lava/

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. Debarment for Violation of Davis-Bacon Act. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hebel O. Parental Involvement in the Individual Educational Program for Israeli Students with Disabilities. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 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

Wagner J. Venezuelan Ballplayers Love Homeland, at a Safe Distance. New York Times. March 11, 2017:SP1.

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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