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]

Marks TJ. Retrospective: Frank Albert Cotton (1930-2007). Science. 2007;316:214.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D’Anna G, Gremaud G. The jamming route to the glass state in weakly perturbed granular media. Nature. 2001;413:407–409.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shatzkes K, Teferedegne B, Murata H. A simple, inexpensive method for preparing cell lysates suitable for downstream reverse transcription quantitative PCR. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4659.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Makise K, Mitsuishi K, Shimojo M, et al. Microstructural analysis and transport properties of MoO and MoC nanostructures prepared by focused electron beam-induced deposition. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5740.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Brown M, Cutler TJ. Haematology Nursing. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Fatemi SM, editor. Critical Mindfulness: Exploring Langerian Models. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Redzic O, Rabel D. A Location Cloud for Highly Automated Driving. In: Meyer G, Beiker S, editors. Road Vehicle Automation 2. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 49–60.

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. Scientists Use 3D Printing To Produce Blood Vessels [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-use-3d-printing-produce-blood-vessels/.

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. Information Technology: OMB and Agencies Need to Fully Implement Major Initiatives to Save Billions of Dollars. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013. Report No.: GAO-13-297T. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ramirez C. Generation-Y leadership: A qualitative phenomenological study of virtual socialization relationships [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2012.

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]

Greenhouse L. Legal Victory for Families of Disabled Students. New York Times. 2007 May 22;A14.

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

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