How to format your references using the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 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. Mallet J. Hybrid speciation. Nature. 2007;446:279–83.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Magurran AE, Henderson PA. Explaining the excess of rare species in natural species abundance distributions. Nature. 2003;422:714–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Storch D, Marquet PA, Gaston KJ. Ecology. Untangling an entangled bank. Science. 2005;307:684–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kabat P, van Vierssen W, Veraart J, Vellinga P, Aerts J. Climate proofing the Netherlands. Nature. 2005;438:283–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Cleaver H, Cawson P, Gorin S, Walker S. Safeguarding Children. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Takuma T. Electric Fields in Composite Dielectrics and their Applications. Techaumnat B, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Abbas AE, Hanson I, Pica MC. Invasive Evaluation of Aortic Stenosis. In: Abbas AE, editor. Aortic Stenosis: Case-Based Diagnosis and Therapy. London: Springer; 2015. p. 55–69.

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 Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Here’s What Scientists Found When They Opened A Cave That Had Been Isolated For More Than Five Million Years [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/prehistoric-cave-still-holds-some-worlds-weirdest-creatures/

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. SEC: EDGAR Dissemination Update. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Jul. Report No.: AIMD-93-18R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Eskridge RD. Municipal government: Does institutional structural reform make a difference in local government? [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 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. Walsh MW. A.I.G. and U.S. Agree on Exit Plan, but Numbers Are Uncertain. New York Times. 2010 Oct 1;B6.

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 Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Abbreviation	J. Ethnobiol. Ethnomed.
ISSN (online)	1746-4269
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Complementary and alternative medicine Health(social science) Cultural Studies