How to format your references using the Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine. 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

Bohannon J (2009) The Gonzo Scientist. Do scientists like green porno? Science 325:1620

A journal article with 2 authors

Prins G, Rayner S (2007) Time to ditch Kyoto. Nature 449:973–975

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen L-Y, Redon S, Lingner J (2012) The human CST complex is a terminator of telomerase activity. Nature 488:540–544

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Salvador JR, Guo F, Hogan T, Kanatzidis MG (2003) Zero thermal expansion in YbGaGe due to an electronic valence transition. Nature 425:702–705

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ibe EH (2014) Terrestrial Radiation Effects in ULSI Devices and Electronic Systems. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Matoušek V, Mautner P (eds) (2007) Text, Speech and Dialogue: 10th International Conference, TSD 2007, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 3-7, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Di Mauro C, Nordvik JP (2010) Decision Support System for Crisis Management Planning. In: Brugnoli A (ed) Dangerous Materials: Control, Risk Prevention and Crisis Management: From New Global Threats to New Global Responses: A Picture of Transition. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 57–69

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 Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Human-Pig ‘Chimeras’ May Provide Vital Transplant Organs, But They Raise Ethical Dilemmas. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1978) Status of the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCallum-Bonar C (2008) Black Ashkenaz And the Almost Promised Land: Yiddish Literature and the Harlem Renaissance. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Machines. New York Times C6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bohannon 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Prins and Rayner 2007; Bohannon 2009).

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

Two authors: (Prins and Rayner 2007)
Three or more authors: (Salvador et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine
Abbreviation	Orient. Pharm. Exp. Med.
ISSN (print)	1598-2386
ISSN (online)	2211-1069
Scope	Complementary and alternative medicine