How to format your references using the Journal of Natural Products citation style

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

(1)

Jackson, M. Recruiters and Industry. Nature 2004, 428 (6981), 450.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Youngs, H.; Somerville, C. Plant Science. Best Practices for Biofuels. Science 2014, 344 (6188), 1095–1096.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Lee, S. H.; Oe, T.; Blair, I. A. Vitamin C-Induced Decomposition of Lipid Hydroperoxides to Endogenous Genotoxins. Science 2001, 292 (5524), 2083–2086.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Amelin, Y.; Krot, A. N.; Hutcheon, I. D.; Ulyanov, A. A. Lead Isotopic Ages of Chondrules and Calcium-Aluminum-Rich Inclusions. Science 2002, 297 (5587), 1678–1683.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. List of MAK and BAT Values 2014; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2014.

An edited book

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Interpersonal Relationships in Education: From Theory to Practice; Zandvliet, D., Brok, P. D., Mainhard, T., Tartwijk, J. van, Eds.; Advances in Learning Environments Research; SensePublishers: Rotterdam, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

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Monory, K.; Lutz, B. Genetic Models of the Endocannabinoid System. In Behavioral Neurobiology of the Endocannabinoid System; Kendall, D., Alexander, S., Eds.; Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; pp 111–139.

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 Natural Products.

Blog post

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Hale, T. UN Finally Owns Up To Their Role In the Haiti Cholera Outbreak. 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

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Government Accountability Office. Administration of the Office of Education’s Student Financial Aid Program; B-164031(1); U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1974.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

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Shakya, R. M. Watershed-Scale Evaluation of Flood Reduction Effect of Low Impact Development Designs. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2014.

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

(1)

Corkery, M.; Protess, B. Citigroup Pays $97.4 Million To End Inquiry On Oversight. New York Times. May 22, 2017, p B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Natural Products
Abbreviation	J. Nat. Prod.
ISSN (print)	0163-3864
ISSN (online)	1520-6025
Scope	Molecular Medicine Analytical Chemistry Organic Chemistry Complementary and alternative medicine Drug Discovery Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacology