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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Frimmel, H. E. Geology. Genesis of the World’s Largest Gold Deposits. Science 2002, 297 (5588), 1815–1817.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Nishide, H.; Oyaizu, K. Materials Science. Toward Flexible Batteries. Science 2008, 319 (5864), 737–738.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Bustamante, C.; Bryant, Z.; Smith, S. B. Ten Years of Tension: Single-Molecule DNA Mechanics. Nature 2003, 421 (6921), 423–427.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Schliehe, C.; Juarez, B. H.; Pelletier, M.; Jander, S.; Greshnykh, D.; Nagel, M.; Meyer, A.; Foerster, S.; Kornowski, A.; Klinke, C.; Weller, H. Ultrathin PbS Sheets by Two-Dimensional Oriented Attachment. Science 2010, 329 (5991), 550–553.

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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Gao, J. Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors for Circuit Design; John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd: Singapore, 2015.

An edited book

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Multinational Management: A Casebook on Asia’s Global Market Leaders, 1st ed. 2016.; Segers, R. T., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Sharma, R. An Appraisal of Internet Business Models as a Research Paradigm. In Innovation in the High-Tech Economy; Chuan, P., Khachidze, V., Lai, I. K. W., Liu, Y., Siddiqui, S., Wang, T., Eds.; Contributions to Economics; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; pp 35–51.

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. Researchers Discover New Technique For Identifying Rare Stem Cells in Bone Marrow. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-discover-new-technique-identifying-rare-stem-cells-bone-marrow/ (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. Health, Education and Human Services Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments; AA-97-29(1); U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1997.

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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Ho, L. Determination of Ibuprofen Isotherm Using Supercritical Fluid Chromatography. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2012.

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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Cooper, H. Pentagon, Seeking Transparency, Says 11,000 U.S. Troops Are in Afghanistan. New York Times. August 30, 2017, p A8.

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

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