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]

Richter FM. Isotope fractionation in silicate melts by thermal diffusion. Nature 2011;472:E1; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dynek JN, Smith S. Resolution of sister telomere association is required for progression through mitosis. Science 2004;304:97–100.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chaudhari NK, Song MY, Yu J-S. Heteroatom-doped highly porous carbon from human urine. Sci Rep 2014;4:5221.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Weber CP, Gedik N, Moore JE, Orenstein J, Stephens J, Awschalom DD. Observation of spin Coulomb drag in a two-dimensional electron gas. Nature 2005;437:1330–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Smith MB. Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods: Smith/Compendium. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Lal SK, editor. Molecular Biology of the SARS-Coronavirus. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rahwan I, Amgoud L. An Argumentation-Based Approach for Practical Reasoning. In: Maudet N, Parsons S, Rahwan I, editors. Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Third International Workshop, ArgMAS 2006 Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006 Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 74–90.

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]

Andrew E. Hearing Voices? Don’t Assume That Means Schizophrenia. IFLScience 2015.

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. Amtrak: Contracting Improprieties by Chief Engineer. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Coleman MJ. Surface accuracy analysis and mathematical modeling of deployable large aperture elastic antenna reflectors. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2010.

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]

Vlasic B. Federal Judge Halts Legal Challenges in Detroit Bankruptcy Case. New York Times 2013:A14.

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