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. Horvitz HR. Obituary: Stanley J. Korsmeyer (1950-2005). Nature. 2005;435:161.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Nabel CS, Kohli RM. Molecular biology. Demystifying DNA demethylation. Science. 2011;333:1229–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Good SP, Noone D, Bowen G. WATER RESOURCES. Hydrologic connectivity constrains partitioning of global terrestrial water fluxes. Science. 2015;349:175–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yang J, Smith MR, Lan T, Hou J-B, Zhang X-G. Articulated Wiwaxia from the Cambrian Stage 3 Xiaoshiba lagerstätte. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4643.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Focardi SM, Fabozzi FJ, Bali TG. Mathematical Methods for Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Garcia K, editor. Reexamining Academic Freedom in Religiously Affiliated Universities: Transcending Orthodoxies. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Dibben M, Hogg G. The Role of Interpersonal Trust in the Client-Consultancy Relationship: An Exploratory Analysis. In: Ford JB, Honeycutt ED Jr, editors. Proceedings of the 1998 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 27–27.

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. Davis J. Researchers Develop Antibiotic Spider Silk That Could Be Used To Treat Wounds [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-develop-antibiotic-spider-silk-that-could-be-used-to-treat-wounds/

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. Securities Regulation: Hostile Corporate Takeovers: Synopses of Thirty-Two Attempts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Mar. Report No.: GGD-88-48FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. DeVito MA. Facebook Family Values: A News Feed Hierarchy Of Needs [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2015.

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. Novick SM. Flavor Bombs From a Storm-Tossed Chef. New York Times. 2015 Aug 30;LI7.

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