How to format your references using the World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion. 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

[1]

Giles J. Relaxed restrictions blamed for rise in foot and mouth. Nature 2001;413:98.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Martinez-Perez E, Moore G. Plant sciences. Promiscuous maize chromosomes. Science 2004;303:49–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cumings J, Collins PG, Zettl A. Peeling and sharpening multiwall nanotubes. Nature 2000;406:586.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zaidi MR, Davis S, Noonan FP, Graff-Cherry C, Hawley TS, Walker RL, et al. Interferon-γ links ultraviolet radiation to melanomagenesis in mice. Nature 2011;469:548–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Collings S. Interpretation and Application of UK GAAP. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Ruggeri T. Rational Extended Thermodynamics beyond the Monatomic Gas. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Barford P, Chen Y, Goyal A, Li Z, Paxson V, Yegneswaran V. Employing Honeynets For Network Situational Awareness. In: Jajodia S, Liu P, Swarup V, Wang C, editors. Cyber Situational Awareness: Issues and Research, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010, p. 71–102.

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 World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion.

Blog post

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Fang J. Binge-Eating Cavefish Could Illuminate Human Obesity. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fat-blind-cavefish-are-constantly-hungry-healthy/ (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. Comments on Proposed Legislation to Prohibit the Discharging of Fuel at Sea. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pee G-Y. Sonochemical Remediation of Freshwater Sediments Contaminated with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2008.

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]

Saslow L. Roosevelt Seeking Schools Superintendent. New York Times 2007:14LI2.

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	World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion
Abbreviation	World J. Acupunct. Moxibustion
ISSN (print)	1003-5257
Scope