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

Cisne, J.L., 2005. How science survived: medieval manuscripts’ “demography” and classic texts’ extinction. Science 307, 1305–1307.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown, S.P., Hestrin, S., 2009. Intracortical circuits of pyramidal neurons reflect their long-range axonal targets. Nature 457, 1133–1136.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, L.Y., Luo, X., Wang, X., 2001. Endonuclease G is an apoptotic DNase when released from mitochondria. Nature 412, 95–99.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Finnerty, J.R., Pang, K., Burton, P., Paulson, D., Martindale, M.Q., 2004. Origins of bilateral symmetry: Hox and dpp expression in a sea anemone. Science 304, 1335–1337.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood, B.G., 2013. Wealth Exposed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Navarro-Arribas, G., Torra, V. (Eds.), 2015. Advanced Research in Data Privacy, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Villar Piqué, G., Alarcón, E., 2011. Buck Converter Design Space Exploration with Detailed Component Models, in: Alarcón, E. (Ed.), CMOS Integrated Switching Power Converters: A Structured Design Approach. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 121–132.

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

Davis, J., 2016. Bizarre Horned Ant Preserved In 99-Million-Year-Old Amber [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bizarre-horned-ant-preserved-in-ninety-nine-million-year-old-amber/ (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, 2004. Intercity Passenger Rail: Issues Associated with the Recent Settlement between Amtrak and the Consortium of Bombardier and Alstom (No. GAO-05-152). 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

Dubin-Thaler, B.J., 2008. Evidence for hierarchical control of conserved, discrete motility types in crawling motility (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Hollander, S., 2009. T, Her Name Is Twindexane. New York Times CY6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Cisne, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Brown and Hestrin, 2009; Cisne, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Brown and Hestrin, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Finnerty et al., 2004)

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

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