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

Zaanen, J. (2008). Quantum critical electron systems: the uncharted sign worlds. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5867), 1205–1207.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koh, L. P., & Wilcove, D. S. (2007). Cashing in palm oil for conservation. Nature, 448(7157), 993–994.

A journal article with 3 authors

Popovych, O. V., Yanchuk, S., & Tass, P. A. (2013). Self-organized noise resistance of oscillatory neural networks with spike timing-dependent plasticity. Scientific Reports, 3, 2926.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Münte, T. F., Kohlmetz, C., Nager, W., & Altenmüller, E. (2001). Neuroperception. Superior auditory spatial tuning in conductors. Nature, 409(6820), 580.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, W.-Y. (2013). NeuroInvesting. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Paulweber, M. (2016). Powertrain Instrumentation and Test Systems: Development – Hybridization – Electrification (K. Lebert, Ed.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Heath, L., Salinger, M. J., Falkland, T., Hansen, J., Jiang, K., Kameyama, Y., Kishi, M., Lebel, L., Meinke, H., Morton, K., Nikitina, E., Shukla, P. R., & White, I. (2014). Climate and Security in Asia and the Pacific (Food, Water and Energy). In M. Manton & L. A. Stevenson (Eds.), Climate in Asia and the Pacific: Security, Society and Sustainability (pp. 129–198). Springer Netherlands.

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

Taub, B. (2016, December 28). Having Sex Helps Us Become Immune To Diseases. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/having-sex-helps-us-become-immune-diseases/

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. (1991). U.S. Telecommunications Policy: Demand Dictates Supply (144265). 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

Allen, S. A. (2014). Dispersed Social Work: Understanding Social Presence and Organizational Identification Through the Use of New Communication Technologies [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

Vecsey, G. (2010, July 12). Finish Is a Beacon Of an Alluring World Cup. New York Times, D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zaanen, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Koh & Wilcove, 2007; Zaanen, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Koh & Wilcove, 2007)
Three authors: (Popovych et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Münte et al., 2001)

About the journal

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