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. Rey FA. Dengue virus: two hosts, two structures. Nature. 2013;497:443–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Shin D, Cho K-H. Recurrent connections form a phase-locking neuronal tuner for frequency-dependent selective communication. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2519.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sharam GJ, Sinclair ARE, Turkington R. Serengeti birds maintain forests by inhibiting seed predators. Science. 2009;325:51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Krishnamurthy PC, Du G, Fukuda Y, Sun D, Sampath J, Mercer KE, et al. Identification of a mammalian mitochondrial porphyrin transporter. Nature. 2006;443:586–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sierra MA, de la Torre MC, Cossío FP. More Dead Ends and Detours. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

1. Pihlström S. Kantian Antitheodicy: Philosophical and Literary Varieties. Kivistö S, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wang V, Carayannis EG. Conclusion and Implications. In: Carayannis EG, editor. Promoting Balanced Competitiveness Strategies of Firms in Developing Countries. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. p. 91–9.

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. Luntz S. Newly Discovered Plant “Eats” Heavy Metal [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-discovered-plant-eats-heavy-metal/

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. USCIS Transformation: Improvements to Performance, Human Capital, and Information Technology Management Needed as Modernization Proceeds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Jul. Report No.: GAO-07-1013R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hood EP. Male teacher perspective on the recruitment of male elementary teachers: A phenomenological study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2015.

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. Marx L. After the Guests Have Left. New York Times. 2014 Jun 1;ST13.

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