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]

Seeberger PH. Exploring life’s sweet spot. Nature 2005;437:1239.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kasahara T, Kato T. Nutritional biochemistry: A new redox-cofactor vitamin for mammals. Nature 2003;422:832.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Millonig JH, Millen KJ, Hatten ME. The mouse Dreher gene Lmx1a controls formation of the roof plate in the vertebrate CNS. Nature 2000;403:764–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Tou WI, Chang S-S, Lee C-C, Chen CY-C. Drug design for neuropathic pain regulation from traditional Chinese medicine. Sci Rep 2013;3:844.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bernheim MLC. Ciba Foundation Symposium 39 - Monoamine Oxidase and its Inhibition: Ciba/Monoamine. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Kacprzyk J, Magnani L, Li P, editors. Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine. vol. 64. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Griesinger C, Desprez B, Coecke S, Casey W, Zuang V. Validation of Alternative In Vitro Methods to Animal Testing: Concepts, Challenges, Processes and Tools. In: Eskes C, Whelan M, editors. Validation of Alternative Methods for Toxicity Testing, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 65–132.

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

[1]

Luntz S. Why Do Cats Love Boxes So Much? IFLScience 2015.

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. Protest Against Award for Computer System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

De la Pena Wing T. Remembering Malintzin’s dream: A bridge between two cultures through language and love. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2010.

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]

Nordland R. Russia Signs Agreement Expanding Syrian Bases. New York Times 2017:A6.

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