How to format your references using the Integrative Medicine International citation style

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

Smith K. Neuroscience: off to night school. Nature. 2013 May;497(7450):S4-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Levnajić Z, Pikovsky A. Untangling complex dynamical systems via derivative-variable correlations. Sci Rep. 2014 May;4:5030.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dalton CA, Langmuir CH, Gale A. Geophysical and geochemical evidence for deep temperature variations beneath mid-ocean ridges. Science. 2014 Apr;344(6179):80–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jacchetti E, Di Rienzo C, Meucci S, Nocchi F, Beltram F, Cecchini M. Wharton’s Jelly human mesenchymal stem cell contact guidance by noisy nanotopographies. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan;4:3830.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kukushkin A. Radio Wave Propagation in the Marine Boundary Layer. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

Buchholz BM. Smart Grids – Fundamentals and Technologies in Electricity Networks. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Favari E, Chroni A, Tietge UJF, Zanotti I, Escolà-Gil JC, Bernini F. Cholesterol Efflux and Reverse Cholesterol Transport. In: von Eckardstein A, Kardassis D, editors. High Density Lipoproteins: From Biological Understanding to Clinical Exploitation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015; pp 181–206.

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 Integrative Medicine International.

Blog post

Andrew D. The Threat To The World’s Largest Wild Animals Is Much Greater Than We Thought [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016 Aug [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-threat-to-the-worlds-largest-wild-animals-is-much-greater-than-we-thought/

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. Social Security Administration’s Computer Systems Modernization Effort May Not Achieve Planned Objectives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Charoenphol D. Using robust statistical methodology to evaluate the performance of project delivery systems: A case study of horizontal construction. 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

Landler M, Harris G. In Retaliation, U.S. Tells Russia to Shut Consulate And 2 Diplomatic Offices. New York Times. 2017 Aug;A7.

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	Integrative Medicine International
Abbreviation	Integr. Med. Int.
ISSN (print)	2296-7389
ISSN (online)	2296-7362
Scope