How to format your references using the Medical Acupuncture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Medical Acupuncture. 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

Dalton R. Swift move to collect fallout data. Nature. 2001 Sep 27;413(6854):335.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knust E, Bossinger O. Composition and formation of intercellular junctions in epithelial cells. Science. 2002 Dec 6;298(5600):1955–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Psaltis D, Quake SR, Yang C. Developing optofluidic technology through the fusion of microfluidics and optics. Nature. 2006 Jul 27;442(7101):381–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dillehay TD, Rossen J, Andres TC, Williams DE. Preceramic adoption of peanut, squash, and cotton in northern Peru. Science. 2007 Jun 29;316(5833):1890–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson D. TKO Sales! Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Mohamad Zain J, Wan Mohd WM bt, El-Qawasmeh E, editors. Software Engineering and Computer Systems: Second International Conference, ICSECS 2011, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, June 27-29, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. XVII, 764 p. 414 illus., 225 illus. in color. (Communications in Computer and Information Science; vol. 179).

A chapter in an edited book

Bauer L, Valera S. Sense Inheritance in English Word-Formation. In: Bauer L, Körtvélyessy L, Štekauer P, editors. Semantics of Complex Words. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 67–84. (Studies in Morphology).

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 Medical Acupuncture.

Blog post

Andrew E. The Daily Show Tears Apart Vaccine Denialists [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/daily-show-tears-apart-vaccine-denialists/

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. FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Jan. Report No.: IMTEC-91-22.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bockler T. Legal advocacy program for low-income children with disabilities: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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

Billard M. Old Is Good, Cheaper Is Better. New York Times. 2010 Apr 15;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	Medical Acupuncture
Abbreviation	Med. Acupunct.
ISSN (print)	1933-6586
Scope	Complementary and alternative medicine