How to format your references using the Journal of Ethnopharmacology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Stocker, R., 2012. Marine microbes see a sea of gradients. Science 338, 628–633.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tuthill, P.G., Lloyd, J.P., 2007. A symmetric bipolar nebula around MWC 922. Science 316, 247.

A journal article with 3 authors

LeCun, Y., Bengio, Y., Hinton, G., 2015. Deep learning. Nature 521, 436–444.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hale, P., Makgoba, M.W., Merson, M.H., Quinn, T.C., Richman, D.D., Vella, S., Wabwire-Mangen, F., Wain-Hobson, S., Weiss, R.A., 2001. Mission now possible for AIDS fund. Nature 412, 271–272.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leung, M.-Y., Chan, I.Y.S., Cooper, C.L., 2014. Stress Management in the Construction Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Herrera, F., 2016. Multilabel Classification: Problem Analysis, Metrics and Techniques. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

White, M.A., Stein, R.J., 2013. LESS: Ports and Instrumentation, in: Rane, A., Cadeddu, J.A., Desai, M.M., Gill, I.S. (Eds.), Scar-Less Surgery: NOTES, Transumbilical, and Others. Springer, London, pp. 37–48.

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 Ethnopharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2016. Don’t Hang Up Yet: The Latest Study Linking Mobile Phones To Cancer Has Big Problems [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2012. Information Technology: FDA Needs to Fully Implement Key Management Practices to Lessen Modernization Risks (No. GAO-12-346). 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

Stachowiak, D., 2011. How executive coaches use the results of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to develop their coachees (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2011. For the Mets, ‘Who’s on First?’ Isn’t a Punch Line. New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stocker, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Stocker, 2012; Tuthill and Lloyd, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Tuthill and Lloyd, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Hale et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Ethnopharmacology
Abbreviation	J. Ethnopharmacol.
ISSN (print)	0378-8741
Scope	Drug Discovery Pharmacology