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

Kanamori, H., 2012. Earthquake hazards: Putting seismic research to most effective use. Nature 483, 147–148.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dimond, A., Fraser, P., 2013. Molecular biology. Long noncoding RNAs Xist in three dimensions. Science 341, 720–721.

A journal article with 3 authors

Okita, K., Ichisaka, T., Yamanaka, S., 2007. Generation of germline-competent induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature 448, 313–317.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, C.-W., Corboy, M.J., DeMartino, G.N., Thomas, P.J., 2003. Endoproteolytic activity of the proteasome. Science 299, 408–411.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon, M.E., 2009. Trump University Entrepreneurship 101. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Varis, O., Biswas, A.K., Tortajada, C. (Eds.), 2008. Management of Transboundary Rivers and Lakes, Water Resources Development and Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Füss, R., Kaiser, D.G., Adams, Z., 2016. Value at Risk, GARCH Modelling and the Forecasting of Hedge Fund Return Volatility, in: Satchell, S. (Ed.), Derivatives and Hedge Funds, Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 91–117.

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. Newly Discovered 17th Century Document Described Now-Extinct Mauritian Wildlife [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-discovered-17th-century-document-describes-now-extinct-mauritian-wildlife/ (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, 1992. Financial Management: NASA’s Decisions Are Based on Unreliable Systems Data and Reports (No. T-AFMD-92-9). 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

Moe, R., 2014. The evolution and impact of the massive open online course (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

Dorment, L.P., 2017. Between Gigs, a TV Host Takes a Spin. New York Times MB2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kanamori, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Dimond and Fraser, 2013; Kanamori, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Dimond and Fraser, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2003)

About the journal

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