How to format your references using the Clinical Phytoscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical Phytoscience. 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

1. Silk J. Astronomy. A journey through time. Science. 2006;313:925–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Romano M, Cifelli RL. Geology. 100 years of continental drift. Science. 2015;350:915–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hristov TS, Miller SD, Friehe CA. Dynamical coupling of wind and ocean waves through wave-induced air flow. Nature. 2003;422:55–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Porco CC, Thomas PC, Weiss JW, Richardson DC. Saturn’s small inner satellites: clues to their origins. Science. 2007;318:1602–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Valizadeh P. Field Effect Transistors, A Comprehensive Overview. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

1. Schneider DT, Brecht IB, Olson TA, Ferrari A, editors. Rare Tumors In Children and Adolescents. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Launer LJ. Diabetes and the Brain – An Epidemiologic Perspective. In: Craft S, Christen Y, editors. Diabetes, Insulin and Alzheimer’s Disease. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 73–80.

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 Clinical Phytoscience.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Windy Weather Discovered in Young Planetary System [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/windy-weather-discovered-early-solar-system/

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. Leo Herbert, GAO, 1956-1974. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Dec. Report No.: OP-7-OH.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. McCollough KD. Applying Military Developments in Netcentricity to Civilian Emergency Management [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Wagner J. Defense, Though Hard to Gauge, Gives Cubs a Clear Edge. New York Times. 2016 Nov 1;B10.

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	Clinical Phytoscience
ISSN (online)	2199-1197
Scope