How to format your references using the Fitoterapia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fitoterapia. 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	Download the output style file
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]

S.G. Rhee, Cell signaling. H2O2, a necessary evil for cell signaling, Science 312 (2006) 1882–1883.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Mukherjee, K. Orth, Microbiology. A protein pupylation paradigm, Science 322 (2008) 1062–1063.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H.M. Eilken, S.-I. Nishikawa, T. Schroeder, Continuous single-cell imaging of blood generation from haemogenic endothelium, Nature 457 (2009) 896–900.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Bibikova, K. Beumer, J.K. Trautman, D. Carroll, Enhancing gene targeting with designed zinc finger nucleases, Science 300 (2003) 764.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

O. Anaya-Lara, D. Campos-Gaona, E. Moreno-Goytia, G. Adam, Offshore Wind Energy Generation, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

L. Jia, Z. Liu, Y. Qin, M. Zhao, L. Diao, eds., Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT2013)-Volume I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.-J. Hospers, N. Reverda, Policy Reactions on Population Decline, in: N. Reverda (Ed.), Managing Population Decline in Europe’s Urban and Rural Areas, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 39–46.

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 Fitoterapia.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Polar Bears Must Swim For Several Days At A Time In The Melting Arctic, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/polar-bears-must-swim-several-days-time-melting-arctic/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, National Science Foundation: Steps Taken to Improve Contracting Practices, but Opportunities Exist to Do More, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.J. Del Cid, Services for immigrant families with children in the child welfare system: A grant proposal project, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

B. Brantley, Theater; The Class Divide, And Its Lessons, New York Times (2017) AR2.

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	Fitoterapia
Abbreviation	Fitoterapia
ISSN (print)	0367-326X
Scope	General Medicine Drug Discovery Pharmacology