How to format your references using the Advances in Integrative Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Integrative Medicine. 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]

D. Collins, Misadventures in the Burgess Shale, Nature 460 (2009) 952–953.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.G. Guenther, R.A. Young, Transcription. Repressive transcription, Science 329 (2010) 150–151.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Mellor, R.A. Nicoll, D. Schmitz, Mediation of hippocampal mossy fiber long-term potentiation by presynaptic Ih channels, Science 295 (2002) 143–147.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T.W. Hayton, J.M. Boncella, B.L. Scott, P.D. Palmer, E.R. Batista, P.J. Hay, Synthesis of imido analogs of the uranyl ion, Science 310 (2005) 1941–1943.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Prud’homme, Flows and Chemical Reactions, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

R.C. Dodge, L. Futcher, eds., Information Assurance and Security Education and Training: 8th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Information Security Education, WISE 8, Auckland, New Zealand, July 8-10, 2013, Proceedings, WISE 7, Lucerne Switzerland, June 9-10, 2011, and WISE 6, Bento Gonçalves, RS, Brazil, July 27-31, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Hughes, M. Evans, G. Morrow, S. Keith, The Realities of Practice, in: M. Evans, G. Morrow, S. Keith (Eds.), The New Music Industries: Disruption and Discovery, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 81–96.

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 Advances in Integrative Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Spider Versus Snake, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spider-versus-snake/ (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 Security: Transportation Security Administration May Face Resource and Other Challenges in Developing a System to Screen All Cargo Transported on Passenger Aircraft, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.C. Cheung, Mixture models for left- and interval-censored data and concordance indices for composite survival outcomes, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2017.

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]

A. Hartocollis, On Eve of Graduation, University of Chicago Student President May Face Expulsion, New York Times (2016) A11.

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	Advances in Integrative Medicine
Abbreviation	Adv. Integr. Med.
ISSN (print)	2212-9588
Scope	Complementary and alternative medicine