How to format your references using the Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine (JICM). 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

Gould PL. Physics. Cold molecules beat the shakes. Science 2008;322(5899):203–204.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hitz M-P, Andelfinger G. Cardiology: Race for healthy hearts. Nature 2015;520(7546):160–161.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alarousu E, AlSaggaf A, Jabbour GE. Online monitoring of printed electronics by Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography. Sci Rep 2013;3:1562.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hsieh T-F, Ibarra CA, Silva P, et al. Genome-wide demethylation of Arabidopsis endosperm. Science 2009;324(5933):1451–1454.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Plantin J-C. Participatory Mapping. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2014.

An edited book

Tjoa AM, Xu LD, Raffai M, et al., (eds). Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems: 10th IFIP WG 8.9 Working Conference, CONFENIS 2016, Vienna, Austria, December 13–14, 2016, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Abler G, Ehlting M. Smart Shopping in the European Low Cost Flight Market. In: Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2007. (Conrady R, Buck M. eds) Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2007; pp. 41–49.

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 Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine.

Blog post

Luntz S. New Initiative To Save 50 Coral Reefs From Extinction. IFLScience; 2017. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-initiative-to-save-50-coral-reefs-from-extinction/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Customs Is Making Good Progress. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hawkins JT. A Private Solution to a Public Problem: Managing Hydraulic Fracturing Risks by Enhancing Private Governance through Mandatory Insurance Requirements. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University: Washington, DC; 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

Kishkovsky S. Russia: Abortion Restrictions Signed. New York Times 2011;A5.

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	Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine
ISSN (print)	2768-3605
ISSN (online)	2768-3613
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