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]

Grotzinger JP. Analysis of surface materials by the Curiosity Mars rover. Science 2013;341:1475.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Carrete M, Tella JL. High individual consistency in fear of humans throughout the adult lifespan of rural and urban burrowing owls. Sci Rep 2013;3:3524.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wong CP, Luo S, Zhang Z. MICROELECTRONICS: Flip the Chip. Science 2000;290:2269–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Peng C, Yang J, Zheng Y, Xu Z, Jiang X. Early magnitude estimation for the MW7.9 Wenchuan earthquake using progressively expanded P-wave time window. Sci Rep 2014;4:6770.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kizer G. Digital Microwave Communication. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Garcia-Alfaro J, Navarro-Arribas G, Cuppens-Boulahia N, Roudier Y, editors. Data Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security: 4th International Workshop, DPM 2009 and Second International Workshop, SETOP 2009, St. Malo, France, September 24-25, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 5939. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Carrera Á, Iglesias CA. Improving Diagnosis Agents with Hybrid Hypotheses Confirmation Reasoning Techniques. In: Cossentino M, Kaisers M, Tuyls K, Weiss G, editors. Multi-Agent Systems: 9th European Workshop, EUMAS 2011, Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 14-15, 2011. Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 48–62.

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]

Hale T. Sailor’s Thumbnail Reveals Diet Details of Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/sailors-thumbnail-reveals-diet-details-of-franklins-doomed-arctic-expedition/ (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. Children’s Television Act: FCC Could Improve Efforts to Oversee Enforcement and Provide Public Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Trahan MW. Large-scale 20th Century Warming Identified in the East Siberian Arctic Using Tree-ring Carbon Isotope Records. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2015.

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]

Itzkoff D, Bai M, Goldstein J, Spitznagel E, Hodgman J, Leff A, et al. The One-Page Magazine. New York Times 2012:MM11.

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

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