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

Abbott, A., 2001. Concern raised for missing biologist. Nature 414, 475.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bollrath, J., Powrie, F., 2013. Immunology. Feed your Tregs more fiber. Science 341, 463–464.

A journal article with 3 authors

Herr, A.B., Ballister, E.R., Bjorkman, P.J., 2003. Insights into IgA-mediated immune responses from the crystal structures of human FcalphaRI and its complex with IgA1-Fc. Nature 423, 614–620.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lucas, R.J., Hattar, S., Takao, M., Berson, D.M., Foster, R.G., Yau, K.-W., 2003. Diminished pupillary light reflex at high irradiances in melanopsin-knockout mice. Science 299, 245–247.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Al-Malah, K.I.M., 2016. Aspen Plus®. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Pifat-Mrzljak, G. (Ed.), 2007. Supramolecular Structure and Function 9. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Schwartz, N.B., Domowicz, M.S., 2014. Chemistry and Function of Glycosaminoglycans in the Nervous System, in: Yu, R.K., Schengrund, C.-L. (Eds.), Glycobiology of the Nervous System, Advances in Neurobiology. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 89–115.

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

Andrew, D., 2015. Do Fetuses Poop Inside The Womb? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/do-fetuses-poop/ (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, 2002. Business Systems Modernization: IRS Needs to Better Balance Management Capacity with System Acquisition Workload (No. GAO-02-356). 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

Harris, S.K., 2017. Dissecting the Disappearing Act: Discussing the Dissipation of Black Male Role Models in Black Communities (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Crow, K., 2003. A Cultural Conundrum: The Chocolate Fortune Cookie. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2001; Bollrath and Powrie, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Bollrath and Powrie, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Lucas et al., 2003)

About the journal

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