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

Rogers, R., 2008. A chemist believes that an ionic liquid is the place for a noxious gas. Nature 454, 555.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scanziani, M., Häusser, M., 2009. Electrophysiology in the age of light. Nature 461, 930–939.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rougier, G.W., Apesteguía, S., Gaetano, L.C., 2011. Highly specialized mammalian skulls from the Late Cretaceous of South America. Nature 479, 98–102.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Malek, N.P., Sundberg, H., McGrew, S., Nakayama, K., Kyriakides, T.R., Roberts, J.M., Kyriakidis, T.R., 2001. A mouse knock-in model exposes sequential proteolytic pathways that regulate p27Kip1 in G1 and S phase. Nature 413, 323–327.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dinet, J., 2014. Information Retrieval in Digital Environments. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dowdy, J.K., Kaplan, S. (Eds.), 2011. Teaching Drama in the Classroom: A Toolbox for Teachers. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Sanrattana, W., Parkay, F.W., Wu, M., 2014. Student, Teacher, and Parental Perceptions of Elementary School Climate, in: Saleh, I.M., Khine, M.S. (Eds.), Reframing Transformational Leadership: New School Culture and Effectiveness. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 35–54.

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

Luntz, S., 2015. Superfast Raindrops Seem To Break The Laws Of Physics [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/raindrops-keep-falling-faster-they-should/ (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, 2000. Financial Audit: District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund’s Fiscal Year 1999 and 1998 Financial Statements (No. GAO-01-41). 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

Saifman, H.P., 2017. Millennial Nurse Manager Perspectives on Their Leadership Roles in the Hospital Setting: A Phenomenological Inquiry (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Feeney, K., 2006. Cider, From Doughnuts to Hot Dogs. New York Times NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rogers, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Rogers, 2008; Scanziani and Häusser, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Scanziani and Häusser, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Malek et al., 2001)

About the journal

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