How to format your references using the Journal of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists. 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

Smaglik P. Rental disagreements. Nature. 2003;425(6953):103.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li X, Xu J. Meta-analysis of the association between dietary lycopene intake and ovarian cancer risk in postmenopausal women. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4885.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prakash M, Quéré D, Bush JWM. Surface tension transport of prey by feeding shorebirds: the capillary ratchet. Science. 2008;320(5878):931-934.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Helsen MM, van den Broeke MR, van de Wal RSW, et al. Elevation changes in Antarctica mainly determined by accumulation variability. Science. 2008;320(5883):1626-1629.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Salleh S, Zomaya AY, Olariu S, Sanugi B. Numerical Simulations and Case Studies Using Visual C++.Net. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Greenspan H, Müller H, Syeda-Mahmood T, eds. Medical Content-Based Retrieval for Clinical Decision Support: Third MICCAI International Workshop, MCBR-CDS 2012, Nice, France, October 1, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Vol 7723. Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Leino OT. Untangling Gameplay: An Account of Experience, Activity and Materiality Within Computer Game Play. In: Sageng JR, Fossheim H, Mandt Larsen T, eds. The Philosophy of Computer Games. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. Springer Netherlands; 2012:57-75.

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 the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists.

Blog post

Andrew E. Existing Drug Rejuvenates Brains Of Elderly Rats. IFLScience. October 28, 2015.

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. Weather Forecasting: Important Issues on Automated Weather Processing System Need Resolution. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sampson R. The Effects of Foster Care on Children: A Comparison of 18th Century through Modern Day Foster Care Practices. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Kirk -- Sophia, Mawr B. HASTE: Aid to Britain. New York Times. February 16, 1941:REVIEW OF THE WEEK EDITORIALSE9.

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 the American College of Clinical Wound Specialists
Abbreviation	J. Am. Coll. Clin. Wound Spec.
ISSN (print)	2213-5103
Scope