How to format your references using the Natural Product Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Natural Product Research. 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

Smaglik P. 2004. Bricks & mortar: Lancaster Environment Centre. Nature. 427(6971):270.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lubchenco J, Grorud-Colvert K. 2015. OCEAN. Making waves: The science and politics of ocean protection. Science. 350(6259):382–383.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ravishankara AR, Daniel JS, Portmann RW. 2009. Nitrous oxide (N2O): the dominant ozone-depleting substance emitted in the 21st century. Science. 326(5949):123–125.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Koch S, Mousset S, Graser A, Reppert S, Übel C, Reinhardt C, Zimmermann T, Rieker R, Lehr HA, Finotto S. 2013. IL-6 activated integrated BATF/IRF4 functions in lymphocytes are T-bet-independent and reversed by subcutaneous immunotherapy. Sci Rep. 3:1754.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adhikari S. 2013. Structural Dynamic Analysis with Generalized Damping Models. Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Regis AK, editor. 2016. The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds: A Critical Edition. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Willis R, Giles IP, Chen PP, López-Pedrera C, Cuadrado MJ, Pierangeli SS. 2012. What is the Mechanism(s) of Antiphospholipid Antibody-Mediated Thrombosis? In: Erkan D, Pierangeli SS, editors. Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Insights and Highlights from the 13th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies. Boston, MA: Springer US; p. 57–78.

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 Natural Product Research.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. A Ghost Chili Pepper Gives Man A Hole In His Esophagus. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-ghost-chili-pepper-gives-man-a-hole-in-his-esophagus/

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. 1998. Core Competencies in Financial Management for Information Technology Personnel Implementing Financial Systems in the Federal Government. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Webb CT. 2009. “The mirroring that binds into freedom”: Stevens, Jeffers, Heidegger and the inhuman [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Chira S. 2016. What Women Lost. New York Times.:SR1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2004; Lubchenco and Grorud-Colvert 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lubchenco and Grorud-Colvert 2015)
Three or more authors: (Koch et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Natural Product Research
ISSN (print)	1478-6419
ISSN (online)	1478-6427
Scope	Plant Science Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Organic Chemistry