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

Javanainen J. Physics. Bose-Einstein condensates interfere and survive. Science. 2005;307(5717):1883-1885.

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

Thomas DSG, Knight M, Wiggs GFS. Remobilization of southern African desert dune systems by twenty-first century global warming. Nature. 2005;435(7046):1218-1221.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cirak F, Cisternas JE, Cuitiño AM, et al. Oscillatory thermomechanical instability of an ultrathin catalyst. Science. 2003;300(5627):1932-1936.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krasner D. A History of Modern Drama. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Shi YQ, Kim HJ, Perez-Gonzalez F, eds. Digital Forensics and Watermarking: 10th International Workshop, IWDW 2011, Atlantic City, NY, October 23-26, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Vol 7128. Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Chang JY, Lee KM, Lee SU. Stereo Matching Using Iterated Graph Cuts and Mean Shift Filtering. In: Narayanan PJ, Nayar SK, Shum HY, eds. Computer Vision – ACCV 2006: 7th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Hyderabad, India, January 13-16, 2006. Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2006:31-40.

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

Hale T. Archaeologists Discover Mayan Temple Has Two More Pyramids Inside It. IFLScience. November 18, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-discover-mayan-temple-has-two-more-pyramids-inside-it/

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. Federal Judicial Space Follow-Up. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schultz SM. Interpreting the Assemblages of Lonnie Holley through His Performative Explanations. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina; 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

Greenhouse L. Justices, 5-3, Broadly Reject Bush Plan to Try Detainees. New York Times. June 30, 2006: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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