How to format your references using the Tzu Chi Medical Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tzu Chi Medical Journal. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Walther G-R. Ecology. Tackling ecological complexity in climate impact research. Science 2007;315:606–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bhaskaran H, Russell R. Kinetic redistribution of native and misfolded RNAs by a DEAD-box chaperone. Nature 2007;449:1014–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Spencer JP, Dineva E, Smith LB. Comment on “Infants’ perseverative search errors are induced by pragmatic misinterpretation.” Science 2009;325:1624; author reply 1624.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Barthes J, Bouhelier A, Dereux A, Colas des Francs G. Coupling of a dipolar emitter into one-dimensional surface plasmon. Sci Rep 2013;3:2734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Arteaga R, Hyland J. Pivot. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Bailey DL, Townsend DW, Valk PE, Maisey MN, editors. Positron Emission Tomography: Basic Sciences. London: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kari J. Cellular Automata, the Collatz Conjecture and Powers of 3/2. In: Yen H-C, Ibarra OH, editors. Developments in Language Theory: 16th International Conference, DLT 2012, Taipei, Taiwan, August 14-17, 2012. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 40–9.

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 Tzu Chi Medical Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. How To Beat Exam Stress With Just The Power Of Your Brain. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-beat-exam-stress-just-power-your-brain/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Inquiry About the Research Grant To Develop a Portable Computer To Record Traffic Information for Verifying the Accuracy of Charges for Telecommunications Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Butler-Roberts J. Fashioning distinction: construction of identity through dress and photography in nineteenth-century Paris. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Sisario B. Jay-Z’s ‘4:44’ Takes An Easy Trip to No. 1. New York Times 2017:C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Tzu Chi Medical Journal
Abbreviation	Tzu Chi Med. J.
ISSN (print)	1016-3190
Scope	General Medicine