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)

Russo, G. Raising Arizona. Nature 2007, 449 (7160), 372–373.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Chyba, C. F.; Hand, K. P. Planetary Science. Life without Photosynthesis. Science 2001, 292 (5524), 2026–2027.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1)

Reinfelder, J. R.; Kraepiel, A. M.; Morel, F. M. Unicellular C4 Photosynthesis in a Marine Diatom. Nature 2000, 407 (6807), 996–999.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Lottermoser, T.; Lonkai, T.; Amann, U.; Hohlwein, D.; Ihringer, J.; Fiebig, M. Magnetic Phase Control by an Electric Field. Nature 2004, 430 (6999), 541–544.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Robson Wright, M. An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

(1)

An Introduction to Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience; Forstmann, B. U., Wagenmakers, E.-J., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

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Clerbout, N.; Rahman, S. The Dialogical Take on the Axiom of Choice, and Its Translation into CTT. In Linking Game-Theoretical Approaches with Constructive Type Theory: Dialogical Strategies, CTT demonstrations and the Axiom of Choice; Rahman, S., Ed.; SpringerBriefs in Philosophy; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp 53–85.

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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Andrew, E. Ancient Meteorite Sheds Light On The Early Solar System’s Magnetic Field. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-meteorite-sheds-light-early-solar-systems-magnetic-field/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes; GAO-01-383R; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2001.

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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Colchero Dorado, R. Recovering Memory in Jordi Soler’s “Los Rojos de Ultramar.” Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2008.

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)

Greenhouse, L. Supreme Court Hears Case Involving Lethal Injection. New York Times. April 27, 2006, p A18.

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