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

Loder N. UK advised to step up asteroid hunt. Nature. 2000 Sep 21;407(6802):275.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheetham CE, Belluscio L. Neuroscience. An olfactory critical period. Science. 2014 Apr 11;344(6180):157–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tsori Y, Tournilhac F, Leibler L. Demixing in simple fluids induced by electric field gradients. Nature. 2004 Jul 29;430(6999):544–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wolfe AM, Jorgenson RA, Robishaw T, Heiles C, Prochaska JX. An 84-microG magnetic field in a galaxy at redshift z = 0.692. Nature. 2008 Oct 2;455(7213):638–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lahdenmäki T, Leach M. Relational Database Index Design and the Optimizers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Abdelrahman OH, Gelenbe E, Gorbil G, Lent R, editors. Information Sciences and Systems 2015: 30th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2015). 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XV, 457 p. 125 illus., 74 illus. in color. (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering; vol. 363).

A chapter in an edited book

Pombo O. Neurath and the Encyclopaedic Project of Unity of Science. In: Symons J, Pombo O, Torres JM, editors. Otto Neurath and the Unity of Science. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011. p. 59–70.

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

Andrews R. Scientists Forced To Write Studies To Refute Scott Pruitt’s Climate Denial Bullshit [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-forced-write-studies-refute-scott-pruitts-climate-denial-bullshit/

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. Commercial Fishing Vessel: Administration of the Colintino Rose II Loan Guarantee. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 May. Report No.: RCED-89-105.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Frost DC. Quantitative correlational study of communication satisfaction related to organizational proximity and face-to-face communication [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2009.

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 M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; In a Swift Counteroffensive, Clinton Assails Bush’s Stand on Health Care. New York Times. 1992 Aug 4;A13.

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