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

Yankner, B.A., 2000. A century of cognitive decline. Nature 404, 125.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lucas, D., Frenette, P.S., 2014. Stem cells: Reprogramming finds its niche. Nature 511, 301–302.

A journal article with 3 authors

Holt, L.J., Krutchinsky, A.N., Morgan, D.O., 2008. Positive feedback sharpens the anaphase switch. Nature 454, 353–357.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kiers, E.T., Rousseau, R.A., West, S.A., Denison, R.F., 2003. Host sanctions and the legume-rhizobium mutualism. Nature 425, 78–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuo, S.M., Lee, B.H., Tian, W., 2006. Real-Time Digital Signal Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Murray, C. (Ed.), 2010. Amputation, Prosthesis Use, and Phantom Limb Pain: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Fischer, V., Bernard, F., 2011. True Random Number Generators in FPGAs, in: Badrignans, B., Danger, J.L., Fischer, Viktor, Gogniat, G., Torres, L. (Eds.), Security Trends for FPGAS: From Secured to Secure Reconfigurable Systems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 101–135.

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

Taub, B., 2016. Please Stop Electrocuting Your Brains At Home, Say Neuroscientists [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1976. Organization Conflict of Interest (No. B-178205). 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

Lama, N., 2017. Optimized Veterinary Thermographic Image Classification using Support Vector Machines and Noise Mitigation (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

Olmsted, S.A., 1935. CITY REPORTS.; A Record of Their Appearance and of Comments Upon Them. New York Times BOOKS16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Yankner, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lucas and Frenette, 2014; Yankner, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Lucas and Frenette, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kiers 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