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

Batty, M. (2008). The size, scale, and shape of cities. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5864), 769–771.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aguzzi, A., & Haass, C. (2003). Games played by rogue proteins in prion disorders and Alzheimer’s disease. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5646), 814–818.

A journal article with 3 authors

Spinner, M., Westhoff, G., & Gorb, S. N. (2014). Subdigital setae of chameleon feet: friction-enhancing microstructures for a wide range of substrate roughness. Scientific Reports, 4, 5481.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Schall, P., Cohen, I., Weitz, D. A., & Spaepen, F. (2004). Visualization of dislocation dynamics in colloidal crystals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5692), 1944–1948.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bell, S. (2005). Lean Enterprise Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Boxall, A. B. A. (Ed.). (2009). Transformation Products of Synthetic Chemicals in the Environment (Vol. 2P). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gerein, N., Green, A., Mirzoev, T., & Pearson, S. (2009). Health System Impacts on Maternal and Child Health. In J. Ehiri (Ed.), Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies (pp. 83–97). Springer US.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, November 28). Graphene Could Lead To Better Bullet-Proof Vests And Hydrogen Fuel Cells. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/graphene-could-lead-better-bullet-proof-vests-and-hydrogen-fuel-cells/

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. (1980). Review of Selected Computer System Procurements (FGMSD-80-34). 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

Saifman, H. P. (2017). Millennial Nurse Manager Perspectives on Their Leadership Roles in the Hospital Setting: A Phenomenological Inquiry [Doctoral dissertation]. Florida Atlantic 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

Cooper, M. (2017, September 22). National Opera Names General Director. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Batty, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Aguzzi & Haass, 2003; Batty, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Aguzzi & Haass, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Schall et al., 2004)

About the journal

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