How to format your references using the Journal of Herbal Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Herbal Medicine. 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

Weaver, A.J., 2011. Climate change. Toward the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. Science 332, 795–796.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tirlapur, U.K., König, K., 2002. Targeted transfection by femtosecond laser. Nature 418, 290–291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dloniak, S.M., French, J.A., Holekamp, K.E., 2006. Rank-related maternal effects of androgens on behaviour in wild spotted hyaenas. Nature 440, 1190–1193.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mizutani, R., Shimizu, Y., Saiga, R., Ueno, G., Nakamura, Y., Takeuchi, A., Uesugi, K., Suzuki, Y., 2014. Spatiotemporal development of soaked protein crystal. Sci. Rep. 4, 5731.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chartered Institute of Building, 2016. Code of Practice for Programme Management in the Built Environment. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Cao, L., Bazzan, A.L.C., Gorodetsky, V., Mitkas, P.A., Weiss, G., Yu, P.S. (Eds.), 2010. Agents and Data Mining Interaction: 6th International Workshop on Agents and Data Mining Interaction, ADMI 2010, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, W., Henein, M., Gatzoulis, M.A., 2007. Disease of the Aorta, in: Henein, M., Gatzoulis, M.A. (Eds.), Echocardiography in Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Springer, London, pp. 59–64.

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 Herbal Medicine.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. Watch Two Guys Fly Their JETPACKS Alongside A Plane [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/two-daredevils-fly-jet-packs-alongside-huge-plan/ (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, 1993. Direct Student Loans: The Department of Education’s Implementation of Direct Lending (No. T-HRD-93-26). 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

Avila, R., 2017. Support and Resources for Homeless Families: A Grant Proposal (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Kelly, D., 1993. IN SHORT: NONFICTION. New York Times 732.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weaver, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Tirlapur and König, 2002; Weaver, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Tirlapur and König, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Mizutani et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Herbal Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Herb. Med.
ISSN (print)	2210-8033
Scope	Complementary and alternative medicine