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

McDevitt, J., 2006. The candidate. Nature 440, 580.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rogers, G., Dragert, H., 2003. Episodic tremor and slip on the Cascadia subduction zone: the chatter of silent slip. Science 300, 1942–1943.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moses, M.J., Fettinger, J.C., Eichhorn, B.W., 2003. Interpenetrating As20 fullerene and Ni12 icosahedra in the onion-skin [As@Ni12@As20]3- ion. Science 300, 778–780.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fang, Y., Vilella-Bach, M., Bachmann, R., Flanigan, A., Chen, J., 2001. Phosphatidic acid-mediated mitogenic activation of mTOR signaling. Science 294, 1942–1945.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sedlacek, H.H., Sapienza, A.M., Eid, V., 2008. Ways to Successful Strategies in Drug Research and Development. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Bull, L., Kovacs, T. (Eds.), 2005. Foundations of Learning Classifier Systems, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Fouvry, É., Klüners, J., 2006. Cohen–Lenstra Heuristics of Quadratic Number Fields, in: Hess, F., Pauli, S., Pohst, M. (Eds.), Algorithmic Number Theory: 7th International Symposium, ANTS-VII, Berlin, Germany, July 23-28, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 40–55.

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

Fang, J., 2016. Why Do Young Lizards Have Blue Tails? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-young-lizards-have-blue-tails/ (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, 1982. Questions Designed To Aid Managers and Auditors in Assessing the ADP Planning Process (No. 119637). 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

Liburd-Shaddai, J.L., 2012. The experiences of remedial instructors at one urban community college: A case study (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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., 2010. On Road to Super Bowl, Sprinkle Some Eye of Newt. 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 (McDevitt, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (McDevitt, 2006; Rogers and Dragert, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Rogers and Dragert, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Fang et al., 2001)

About the journal

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