How to format your references using the Journal of Asian Natural Products Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Asian Natural Products Research. 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]

Yuan J. Applied physics: Bright electron twisters. Nature. 2014;509:37–38.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Allen RM, Kanamori H. The potential for earthquake early warning in southern California. Science. 2003;300:786–789.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Srinivasan V, Pierik AJ, Lill R. Crystal structures of nucleotide-free and glutathione-bound mitochondrial ABC transporter Atm1. Science. 2014;343:1137–1140.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Cella M, Fuchs A, Vermi W, et al. A human natural killer cell subset provides an innate source of IL-22 for mucosal immunity. Nature. 2009;457:722–725.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Shanmugam R, Chattamvelli R. Statistics for Scientists and Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Matsuzawa T, Humle T, Sugiyama Y, editors. The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shukla V, Upreti DK, Bajpai R. Ecosystem Monitoring. In: D.k. U, Bajpai R, editors. Lichens to Biomonitor the Environment. New Delhi: Springer India; 2014. p. 97–170.

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 Asian Natural Products Research.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Butterfly Populations Could Be Headed For Widespread Collapse [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/uk-butterfly-populations-could-be-headed-widespread-collapse/.

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. Manned Undersea Science and Technology Needs Focus and Direction. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977. Report No.: PSAD-77-130. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jobanputra MC. Investigation of Organic Thin Films for Application in Electro-optic Devices [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2002.

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]

Philpott ML. Finding What I Need at the Mall. New York Times. 2017 Mar 4;SR10.

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	Journal of Asian Natural Products Research
Abbreviation	J. Asian Nat. Prod. Res.
ISSN (print)	1028-6020
ISSN (online)	1477-2213
Scope	Molecular Medicine Analytical Chemistry Organic Chemistry General Medicine Complementary and alternative medicine Drug Discovery Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacology