How to format your references using the Chinese Herbal Medicines citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Herbal Medicines. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Sandrian, M. G. (2015). A European postdoc for the family. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6219), 346.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jiang, P., & Beauchamp, G. K. (2014). Evolution. Sensing nectar’s sweetness. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6199), 878–879.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palter, J. B., Lozier, M. S., & Barber, R. T. (2005). The effect of advection on the nutrient reservoir in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. Nature, 437(7059), 687–692.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Shin, J.-S., Ebersold, M., Pypaert, M., Delamarre, L., Hartley, A., & Mellman, I. (2006). Surface expression of MHC class II in dendritic cells is controlled by regulated ubiquitination. Nature, 444(7115), 115–118.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Saliba, A. J., Corona, J. C., & Johnson, K. E. (2010). Option Spread Strategies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mhaskar, P. (2013). Fault-Tolerant Process Control: Methods and Applications (J. Liu & P. D. Christofides, Eds.). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Partap, S., & Fisher, P. G. (2010). Embryonal Tumors. In N. Gupta, A. Banerjee, & D. Haas-Kogan (Eds.), Pediatric CNS Tumors (pp. 89–114). Springer.

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 Chinese Herbal Medicines.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, July 29). Spotting The Solos In The Cosmic Choir Of Black Holes. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/spotting-the-solos-in-the-cosmic-choir-of-black-holes/

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. (1976). Radiation Exposure from Diagnostic X-Rays Could Be Reduced (HRD-77-22). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Santella Steen, S. (2017). The Potential of Television Programming as a Resource to Facilitate Academic Progress for Students who have a Specific Learning Disability in Reading [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, April 30). Typically Chummy Ritual Offers Moment of Catharsis. New York Times, A15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Sandrian, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Jiang & Beauchamp, 2014; Sandrian, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Jiang & Beauchamp, 2014)
Three authors: (Palter et al., 2005)
6 or more authors: (Shin et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chinese Herbal Medicines
ISSN (print)	1674-6384
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