How to format your references using the World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion. 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

[1]

Schmittner A. Decline of the marine ecosystem caused by a reduction in the Atlantic overturning circulation. Nature 2005;434:628–33.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shedlock DJ, Shen H. Requirement for CD4 T cell help in generating functional CD8 T cell memory. Science 2003;300:337–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

De Moraes CM, Mescher MC, Tumlinson JH. Caterpillar-induced nocturnal plant volatiles repel conspecific females. Nature 2001;410:577–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Orosei R, Lauro SE, Pettinelli E, Cicchetti A, Coradini M, Cosciotti B, et al. Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars. Science 2018;361:490–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

German Geotechnical Society. Taschenbuch für den Tunnelbau 2014. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Crew MA, Crew MA, Spiegel M, editors. Obtaining the Best from Regulation and Competition. vol. 47. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jager MJ, Bronkhorst IHG. Immunology of Ocular Tumors. In: Singh AD, Damato B, editors. Clinical Ophthalmic Oncology: Basic Principles and Diagnostic Techniques, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 55–62.

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 World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Indonesian Forest Fires Expected To Generate Increase In Human-Animal Conflicts. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/indonesian-forest-fires-expected-generate-increase-human-animal-conflicts/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Air Traffic Control: Surveillance Radar Request for the Cherry Capital Airport. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

PerLee-Lange DL. An introduction to the juvenile dependency court process and the child welfare system: A curriculum for parents. 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

[1]

Williams J. Keeper of the Family Stories. New York Times 2017:C5.

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	World Journal of Acupuncture - Moxibustion
Abbreviation	World J. Acupunct. Moxibustion
ISSN (print)	1003-5257
Scope