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]

Edwards EA. Microbiology. Breathing the unbreathable. Science 2014;346:424–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pandolfi JM, Lovelock CE. Ecology. Novelty trumps loss in global biodiversity. Science 2014;344:266–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Albert R, Jeong H, Barabasi AL. Error and attack tolerance of complex networks. Nature 2000;406:378–82.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Costa E, Soffitta P, Bellazzini R, Brez A, Lumb N, Spandre G. An efficient photoelectric X-ray polarimeter for the study of black holes and neutron stars. Nature 2001;411:662–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Law H. The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Alcaro R, Peterson J, Greco E, editors. The West and the Global Power Shift: Transatlantic Relations and Global Governance. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ferraz Dias de Moraes MA, Zilberman D. Organizational Changes Within the Private Sphere. In: Zilberman D, editor. Production of Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil: From State Intervention to a Free Market, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 59–64.

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 D. What ‘Walkies’ Says About Your Relationship With Your Dog. IFLScience 2017.

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. Status Information: FAA’s Year 2000 Business Continuity and Contingency Planning Efforts Are Ongoing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ports MO. Laterally associated proteins modulate α6 integrin cleavage, a permissive process utilized during cancer metastasis. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 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

[1]

Pilon M. Texas Association Criticized for Ruling on Jewish Team. New York Times 2012:B16.

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