How to format your references using the Journal of Ginseng Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Ginseng Research. 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]

Holden C. DIVERSITY: Parity as a Goal Sparks Bitter Battle. Science 2000;289:380.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kennedy D, Norman C. What don’t we know? Science 2005;309:75.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Murray BJ, Knopf DA, Bertram AK. The formation of cubic ice under conditions relevant to Earth’s atmosphere. Nature 2005;434:202–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang F, Zarkada G, Han J, Li J, Dubrac A, Ola R, et al. Lacteal junction zippering protects against diet-induced obesity. Science 2018;361:599–603.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Li FM, Nathan A, Wu Y, Ong BS. Organic Thin Film Transistor Integration. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Motohashi N, editor. Bioactive Heterocycles VII: Flavonoids and Anthocyanins in Plants, and Latest Bioactive Heterocycles II. vol. 16. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Masuko T, Souma K. Nutritional Physiology of Wild and Domesticated Japanese Sika Deer. In: McCullough DR, Takatsuki S, Kaji K, editors. Sika Deer: Biology and Management of Native and Introduced Populations, Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2009, p. 61–82.

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 Ginseng Research.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. Think Swearing Isn’t Big Or Clever? Think Again. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/think-swearing-isnt-big-or-clever-think-again/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Truck Safety: Share the Road Safely Program Needs Better Evaluation of Its Initiatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gullion DK. The study of interstate and intrastate mobility effects on student achievement. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2009.

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]

Kishkovsky S. As Sarkozy and Putin Meet, Iran Quickly Comes Between Them. New York Times 2007:A5.

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 Ginseng Research
Abbreviation	J. Ginseng Res.
ISSN (print)	1226-8453
Scope	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) Biotechnology Complementary and alternative medicine