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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Baker M. Microscopy: Bright light, better labels. Nature. 2011;478(7367):137-142.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mjolsness E, DeCoste D. Machine learning for science: state of the art and future prospects. Science. 2001;293(5537):2051-2055.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saitta EKH, Legron-Rodriguez T, Bowdon MA. IBI* series winner. An inquiry into the water around us. Science. 2013;341(6149):971-972.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Steck K, Veit D, Grandy R, et al. ERRATUM: A high-throughput behavioral paradigm for Drosophila olfaction - The Flywalk. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1495.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wei J. Great Inventions That Changed the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Ma M, Oliveira MF, Hauge JB, Duin H, Thoben KD, eds. Serious Games Development and Applications: Third International Conference, SGDA 2012, Bremen, Germany, September 26-29, 2012. Proceedings. Vol 7528. Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Aberman NL, Cohen MJ. Nutrition and Bioenergy. In: Thompson B, Cohen MJ, eds. The Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition. Springer Netherlands; 2012:61-75.

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 E. Populations Of World’s Rarest Big Cat Rebound. IFLScience. February 24, 2015.

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. Shuttle Rocket Motor Program: NASA Should Delay Awarding Some Construction Contracts. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim SC. Defiant Institutionalization: Democratization and Social Movements in South Korea, 1984–2002. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University; 2008.

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

Kelly C. Drafthouse Founder Tries Hand at Film Distribution. New York Times. December 11, 2011:A37B.

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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