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

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Matzinger, P. The Danger Model: A Renewed Sense of Self. Science 2002, 296 (5566), 301–305.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Rubincam, D. P.; Paddack, S. J. Planetary Science. As Tiny Worlds Turn. Science 2007, 316 (5822), 211–212.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Altabet, M. A.; Higginson, M. J.; Murray, D. W. The Effect of Millennial-Scale Changes in Arabian Sea Denitrification on Atmospheric CO2. Nature 2002, 415 (6868), 159–162.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Rein, M.; Favrod, V. D.; Hou, C.; Khudiyev, T.; Stolyarov, A.; Cox, J.; Chung, C.-C.; Chhav, C.; Ellis, M.; Joannopoulos, J.; Fink, Y. Diode Fibres for Fabric-Based Optical Communications. Nature 2018, 560 (7717), 214–218.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Giesbrecht, F. G.; Gumpertz, M. L. Planning, Construction, and Statistical Analysis of Comparative Experiments: Giesbrecht/Comparative Experiments; Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

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RNA and DNA Diagnostics; Erdmann, V. A., Jurga, S., Barciszewski, J., Eds.; RNA Technologies; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

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Andrade, W. L.; Machado, P. D. L.; Alves, E. L. G.; Almeida, D. R. Test Case Generation of Embedded Real-Time Systems with Interruptions for FreeRTOS. In Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications: 12th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2009 Gramado, Brazil, August 19-21, 2009 Revised Selected Papers; Oliveira, M. V. M., Woodcock, J., Eds.; Hutchison, D., Kanade, T., Kittler, J., Kleinberg, J. M., Mattern, F., Mitchell, J. C., Naor, M., Nierstrasz, O., Pandu Rangan, C., Steffen, B., Sudan, M., Terzopoulos, D., Tygar, D., Vardi, M. Y., Weikum, G., Series Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; pp 54–69.

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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Evans, K. This Startup Cleans Up Algae From Infested Lakes And Uses It To Make Shoes. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-startup-cleans-up-algae-from-infested-lakes-and-uses-it-to-make-shoes/ (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. Tax Systems Modernization: Actions Underway But IRS Has Not Yet Corrected Management and Technical Weaknesses; AIMD-96-106; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1996.

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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Zhong, A. Product Development Considerations for a Nutrient Rich Bar Using Cricket (Acheta Domesticus) Protein. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

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Corkery, M. Investors Lose Patience As Retail Fails to Rally. New York Times. August 11, 2017, p B3.

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