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

Caldecott, K.W., 2003. Cell signaling. The BRCT domain: signaling with friends? Science 302, 579–580.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eisenstein, J.P., Macdonald, A.H., 2004. Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons in bilayer electron systems. Nature 432, 691–694.

A journal article with 3 authors

McLaughlin, A.C., Sher, F., Attfield, J.P., 2005. Negative lattice expansion from the superconductivity--antiferromagnetism crossover in ruthenium copper oxides. Nature 436, 829–832.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yasue, A., Mitsui, S.N., Watanabe, T., Sakuma, T., Oyadomari, S., Yamamoto, T., Noji, S., Mito, T., Tanaka, E., 2014. Highly efficient targeted mutagenesis in one-cell mouse embryos mediated by the TALEN and CRISPR/Cas systems. Sci. Rep. 4, 5705.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shover, L., 2010. Trading Options in Turbulent Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kandampully, J. (Ed.), 2012. Service Management: The New Paradigm in Retailing. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Job, G., Rüffler, R., 2016. Chemical Potential, in: Rüffler, R. (Ed.), Physical Chemistry from a Different Angle: Introducing Chemical Equilibrium, Kinetics and Electrochemistry by Numerous Experiments. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 93–128.

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

Evans, K., 2017. Welsh Farmer Accidentally Creates World’s Hottest Chili [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/welsh-farmer-accidentally-creates-worlds-hottest-chili/ (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, 1992. Voice of America (No. NSIAD-92-300R). 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

Escalante-Guerra, M., 2009. Policy analysis proposal regarding the Adoptions and Safe Family Act of 1997 (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Gustines, G.G., 2014. A New Superhero Arrives to Protect the Powerless. 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 (Caldecott, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Caldecott, 2003; Eisenstein and Macdonald, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Eisenstein and Macdonald, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Yasue et al., 2014)

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