How to format your references using the Chinese Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese 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	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 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. Hoshino M. Space physics. Coupling across many scales. Science. 2003;299:834–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lee BW, Clark NA. Alignment of liquid crystals with patterned isotropic surfaces. Science. 2001;291:2576–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kovács ÁM, Téglás E, Endress AD. The social sense: susceptibility to others’ beliefs in human infants and adults. Science. 2010;330:1830–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Morioka S, Perry JSA, Raymond MH, Medina CB, Zhu Y, Zhao L, et al. Efferocytosis induces a novel SLC program to promote glucose uptake and lactate release. Nature. 2018;

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Trout J, Rivkin S. Differentiate or Die. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

1. Inversini A, Schegg R, editors. Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2016: Proceedings of the International Conference in Bilbao, Spain, February 2-5, 2016. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Silipo A, Molinaro A. The Diversity of the Core Oligosaccharide in Lipopolysaccharides. In: Wang X, Quinn PJ, editors. Endotoxins: Structure, Function and Recognition. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 69–99.

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 Chinese Medicine.

Blog post

1. Carpineti C. Only 2% Of People Can Solve “Einstein’s Riddle” [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/only-2-of-people-can-solve-einsteins-riddle/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Hazardous Waste: Problems and Cleanup Efforts at an FAA Facility in Oklahoma City. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Mar. Report No.: RCED-88-113FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. McAvoy DL. Coming of age with Shakespeare: The convergence of American youth culture and high culture since the 1980s [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2012.

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. Vecsey G. Accountability Would Seem to Begin and End With Referees. New York Times. 2011 Mar 12;D3.

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	Chinese Medicine
Abbreviation	Chin. Med.
ISSN (online)	1749-8546
Scope	Complementary and alternative medicine Pharmacology