How to format your references using the Journal of Medicinal Plants for Economic Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Medicinal Plants for Economic Development (JOMPED). 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

Pennisi, E., 2015, ‘Beetle horns and book writing’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6267), 1578.

A journal article with 2 authors

Neilsen, J. & Lee, J.C., 2009, ‘Accretion disk winds as the jet suppression mechanism in the microquasar GRS 1915+105’, Nature, 458(7237), 481–484.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palmer, M.J., Fukuyama, F. & Relman, D.A., 2015, ‘SCIENCE GOVERNANCE. A more systematic approach to biological risk’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6267), 1471–1473.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rao, S.G., Huang, L., Setyawan, W. & Hong, S., 2003, ‘Nanotube electronics: large-scale assembly of carbon nanotubes’, Nature, 425(6953), 36–37.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perera, A.H. & Buse, L.J., 2014, Ecology of Wildfire Residuals in Boreal Forests, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Destexhe, A., 2012, Neuronal Noise, vol. 8, Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Arora, R., Brun, C.M.C. & Azzalin, C.M., 2011, ‘TERRA: Long Noncoding RNA at Eukaryotic Telomeres’, in D. Ugarkovic (ed.), Long Non-Coding RNAs, Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology., pp. 65–94, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Medicinal Plants for Economic Development.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016, This 12 Black Dot Illusion Is Blowing A Lot Of Minds, IFLScience.

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, 1977, More Emphasis Needed on Data Analysis Phase of Space Science Programs, 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

Wang, N., 2015, Computational Studies on Biomolecular Diffusion and Electrostatics – PhD thesis, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Pilon, M., 2013, A Different Way of Taking Off at J.F.K, New York Times, p. D8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pennisi 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Neilsen & Lee 2009; Pennisi 2015).

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

Two authors: (Neilsen & Lee 2009)
Three or more authors: (Rao et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Medicinal Plants for Economic Development
ISSN (print)	2519-559X
ISSN (online)	2616-4809
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