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

Wickware P (2000) Exploring the territory in tissue engineering. Nature 403:464–465

A journal article with 2 authors

Bodner S, Paine C (2000) When peer review fails. Nature 407:129–130

A journal article with 3 authors

Chao BF, Wu YH, Li YS (2008) Impact of artificial reservoir water impoundment on global sea level. Science 320:212–214

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yasmin L, Chen X, Stubbs KA, Raston CL (2013) Optimising a vortex fluidic device for controlling chemical reactivity and selectivity. Sci Rep 3:2282

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leroy L (2016) Eyestrain Reduction in Stereoscopy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Burnstock G (2012) Purinergic Signalling and the Nervous System. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Huebner WF, Barfield WD (2014) Radiative Cross Sections. In: Barfield WD (ed) Opacity. Springer, New York, NY, pp 123–261

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 E (2015) Nobel Prize For Medicine Goes To Unsung Heroes In Fight Against Parasites And Malaria. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/nobel-prize-medicine-goes-unsung-heroes-fight-against-parasites-and-malaria/. 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 (1995) Information Technology: A Statistical Study of Acquisition Time. 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

Baldasaro RE (2013) Person level analysis in latent growth curve models. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Johnson G (2017) Awakenings. New York Times BR13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wickware 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Wickware 2000; Bodner and Paine 2000).

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

Two authors: (Bodner and Paine 2000)
Three or more authors: (Yasmin et al. 2013)

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