How to format your references using the Acupuncture and Related Therapies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acupuncture and Related Therapies. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

G. Bertrand, Chemistry. The modest undressing of a silicon center, Science 305 (2004) 783–785.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Cossart, P.J. Sansonetti, Bacterial invasion: the paradigms of enteroinvasive pathogens, Science 304 (2004) 242–248.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.H. Schön, C. Kloc, B. Batlogg, Superconductivity at 52 K in hole-doped C60, Nature 408 (2000) 549–552.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.M. Wudick, M.T. Portes, E. Michard, P. Rosas-Santiago, M.A. Lizzio, C.O. Nunes, C. Campos, D. Santa Cruz Damineli, J.C. Carvalho, P.T. Lima, O. Pantoja, J.A. Feijó, CORNICHON sorting and regulation of GLR channels underlie pollen tube Ca2+ homeostasis, Science 360 (2018) 533–536.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Institute of Management and Administration (IOMA), Cost Reduction and Control Best Practices, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

N.R. Galloway, Common Eye Diseases and their Management, Third Edition, Springer, London, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. de Vries, N. van Dijk, A Bump in the Road. Ruling Out Law from Technology, in: M. Hildebrandt, J. Gaakeer (Eds.), Human Law and Computer Law: Comparative Perspectives, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013: pp. 89–121.

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 Acupuncture and Related Therapies.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, This Is What The Skeletons Of Famous Cartoon Characters Would Look Like, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/skeletons-famous-cartoon-characters/ (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, Aviation Finance: Observations on Potential FAA Funding Options, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.M. Tabellario, A plan to establish a financial counseling center on the campus of California State University, Long Beach, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

B. Rothenberg, No. 1 Ranking in Hand, Pliskova Aims for a Major Title, New York Times (2017) B10.

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	Acupuncture and Related Therapies
Abbreviation	Acupunct. Relat. Ther.
ISSN (print)	2211-7660
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