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

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

Lam L. From physics to revolution and back. Science. 2015;348(6239):1170.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roweis ST, Saul LK. Nonlinear dimensionality reduction by locally linear embedding. Science. 2000;290(5500):2323-2326.

A journal article with 3 authors

González-Gutiérrez J, Carrillo-Estrada JL, Ruiz-Suárez JC. Penetration of granular projectiles into a water target. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6762.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sijacic P, Wang X, Skirpan AL, et al. Identification of the pollen determinant of S-RNase-mediated self-incompatibility. Nature. 2004;429(6989):302-305.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chatterji S, Hedges P. Loan Workouts and Debt for Equity Swaps. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Wen Z, Li T, eds. Foundations of Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, Shenzhen, China, Nov 2013 (ISKE 2013). Vol 277. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Juter K, Sriraman B. Does High Achieving in Mathematics = Gifted and/or Creative in Mathematics? In: Sriraman B, Lee KH, eds. The Elements of Creativity and Giftedness in Mathematics. SensePublishers; 2011:45-65.

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 Research.

Blog post

Hale T. Against All Odds, AI Is Owning Humans At A Poker Tournament. IFLScience. August 18, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/against-all-odds-ai-is-owning-humans-at-a-poker-tournament/

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. Army Training: Improvements Are Needed in 5-Ton Truck Driver Training and Supervision. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shaw RM. The Influence of Organizational Culture on Employee Attitudes towards Information Security Policy. Doctoral dissertation. Capella 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

Gustines GG. Coates to Write for Marvel. New York Times. September 23, 2015:C1.

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	Integrative Medicine Research
Abbreviation	Integr. Med. Res.
ISSN (print)	2213-4220
Scope