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

Goldstein, L., 2012. US election: Know your representatives. Nature 489, 494–495.

A journal article with 2 authors

Limardo, A.J., Worden, A.Z., 2015. Microbiology: Exclusive networks in the sea. Nature 522, 36–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaaret, P., Simet, M.G., Lang, C.C., 2006. The orbital period of the ultraluminous x-ray source in M82. Science 311, 491.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kinast, J., Turlapov, A., Thomas, J.E., Chen, Q., Stajic, J., Levin, K., 2005. Heat capacity of a strongly interacting Fermi gas. Science 307, 1296–1299.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blume, S.W., 2011. High Voltage Protection for Telecommunications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Daniilidis, K., Maragos, P., Paragios, N. (Eds.), 2010. Computer Vision – ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Humphrey, L.R., 2013. Model Checking for Verification in UAV Cooperative Control Applications, in: Fahroo, F., Wang, L.Y., Yin, G. (Eds.), Recent Advances in Research on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 69–117.

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., 2015. Ethiopia Now Has A Space Program [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/ethiopia-now-has-space-program/ (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, 2011. Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle: DOD Needs to Ensure New Acquisition Strategy is Based on Sufficient Information (No. GAO-11-641). 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

Klein, J., 2017. Mississippian Space and Place: A Geographical Study of Archaeological Site Data in the American Bottom (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Powell, M., 2017. From the Cavaliers, A Nifty Glimpse Of ‘What If?’ New York Times SP3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldstein, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Goldstein, 2012; Limardo and Worden, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Limardo and Worden, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Kinast et al., 2005)

About the journal

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