How to format your references using the Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. 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

Palumbi SR. Humans as the world’s greatest evolutionary force. Science. 2001;293(5536):1786-1790.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dalton R, Abbott A. Hawaii reaches for the stars with astronomy master plan. Nature. 2000;405(6789):872.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang YG, Pagani M, Liu Z. Response to Comment on “A 12-million-year temperature history of the tropical Pacific Ocean.” Science. 2014;346(6216):1467.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dirks PHGM, Kibii JM, Kuhn BF, et al. Geological setting and age of Australopithecus sediba from southern Africa. Science. 2010;328(5975):205-208.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shi Y, Liu M, Fang F. Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Fleishman GD. Cosmic Electrodynamics: Electrodynamics and Magnetic Hydrodynamics of Cosmic Plasmas. Vol 388. (Toptygin IN, ed.). Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

DeMaris A, Selman SH. Bivariate Statistical Techniques. In: Selman SH, ed. Converting Data into Evidence: A Statistics Primer for the Medical Practitioner. Springer; 2013:57-77.

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 Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing.

Blog post

Luntz S. GPS Satellites Could Find Dark Matter. IFLScience. November 18, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/gps-satellites-could-find-dark-matter/

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

Government Accountability Office. Information Technology: Homeland Security Needs to Improve Entry Exit System Expenditure Planning. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Otarola AC. The Effects of Turbulence in an Absorbing Atmosphere on the Propagation of Microwave Signals Used in an Active Sounding System. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona; 2008.

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

Poniewozik J. Just What the Candidate Ordered. New York Times. September 15, 2016:A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing
Abbreviation	Explore (NY)
ISSN (print)	1550-8307
Scope	Analysis Complementary and alternative medicine General Nursing Chiropractics