How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. 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

Nakano, A., 2015. Cell biology: Polarized transport in the Golgi apparatus. Nature 521, 427–428.

A journal article with 2 authors

Skinner, G., Gorenstein, P., 2003. Astronomy (communication arising): black holes, fleas and microlithography. Nature 426, 245–246.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lu, L.Y., Ou, N., Lu, Q.-B., 2013. Antioxidant induces DNA damage, cell death and mutagenicity in human lung and skin normal cells. Sci. Rep. 3, 3169.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Scott, R.S., McMahon, E.J., Pop, S.M., Reap, E.A., Caricchio, R., Cohen, P.L., Earp, H.S., Matsushima, G.K., 2001. Phagocytosis and clearance of apoptotic cells is mediated by MER. Nature 411, 207–211.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 1996. Guidelines for Use of Vapor Cloud Dispersion Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Drioli, E., Giorno, L. (Eds.), 2016. Encyclopedia of Membranes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Park, D., Cho, S., Park, J., 2009. The Realization of Greenhouse Monitoring and Auto Control System Using Wireless Sensor Network for Fungus Propagation Prevention in Leaf of Crop, in: Ślęzak, D., Kim, T.-H., Stoica, A., Kang, B.-H. (Eds.), Control and Automation: International Conference, CA 2009, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, CA 2009, Jeju Island, Korea, December 10-12, 2009.Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 28–34.

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 Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. A Midday Nap Could Reduce Your Blood Pressure [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/midday-nap-could-reduce-your-blood-pressure/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1987. Railroad Regulation: Shipper Experiences and Current Issues in ICC Regulation of Rail Rates (No. RCED-87-119). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ochse, A.R., 2013. Targeted Killing, Drones and International Law: How U.S. Practice is Shaping International Law (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Sisario, B., 2017. Lana Del Rey Tops Delayed Billboard Chart. 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 (Nakano, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Nakano, 2015; Skinner and Gorenstein, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Skinner and Gorenstein, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Scott et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Research on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Res. Med. Aromat. Plants
ISSN (print)	2214-7861
Scope