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

van der Greef J. Perspective: All systems go. Nature. 2011 Dec 21;480(7378):S87.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilkinson K, Hershko A. Irwin Allan Rose (1926-2015). Nature. 2015 Jul 30;523(7562):532.

A journal article with 3 authors

White LE, Coppola DM, Fitzpatrick D. The contribution of sensory experience to the maturation of orientation selectivity in ferret visual cortex. Nature. 2001 Jun 28;411(6841):1049–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Qin LC, Zhao X, Hirahara K, Miyamoto Y, Ando Y, Iijima S. The smallest carbon nanotube. Nature. 2000 Nov 2;408(6808):50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Esch GW. Ecological Parasitology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

McCarthy J, editor. Trends in Functional Programming: 14th International Symposium, TFP 2013, Provo, UT, USA, May 14-16, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. X, 169 p. 59 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 8322).

A chapter in an edited book

Kosmaoglou M, Novoselova TV, Cheetham ME. The Role of Chaperones and Co-Chaperones in Retinal Degenerative Diseases. In: Asea AAA, Brown IR, editors. Heat Shock Proteins and the Brain: Implications for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Neuroprotection. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. p. 109–23.

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

O`Callaghan J. Watch Live As Elon Musk Reveals His Plan To Colonize Mars. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Information Technology: OMB Has Made Improvements to Its Dashboard, but Further Work Is Needed by Agencies and OMB to Ensure Data Accuracy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Mar. Report No.: GAO-11-262.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wang X. Inferences on Gamma Distributions: Uncensored and Censored Cases [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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

Vecsey G. Observing the Journey of a Lacrosse Pioneer, McPhee Style. New York Times. 2011 May 27;B15.

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