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

Smaglik P (2000) United States backs soil strategy in fight against global warming. Nature 406:549–550

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore T, Armstrong KM (2003) Selective gating of visual signals by microstimulation of frontal cortex. Nature 421:370–373

A journal article with 3 authors

Faller M, Niederweis M, Schulz GE (2004) The structure of a mycobacterial outer-membrane channel. Science 303:1189–1192

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Haine ER, Moret Y, Siva-Jothy MT, Rolff J (2008) Antimicrobial defense and persistent infection in insects. Science 322:1257–1259

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lincoln NB, Kneebone II, Macniven JAB, Morris RC (2011) Psychological Management of Stroke. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Feichtinger HG (2008) Pseudo-Differential Operators: Quantization and Signals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Hoeyer K (2016) Denmark at a Crossroad? Intensified Data Sourcing in a Research Radical Country. In: Mittelstadt BD, Floridi L (eds) The Ethics of Biomedical Big Data. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 73–93

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) Should You Rely On First Instincts When Answering A Multiple Choice Exam? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/should-you-rely-first-instincts-when-answering-multiple-choice-exam/. 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) Aviation Safety: FAA Can Be More Proactive in Promoting Aviation Safety. 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

Parker HA (2017) Virtual Mate Poaching: A study of the tactics used to poach a potential mate on Social Networking Sites. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Greenhouse L, Kirkpatrick DD (2007) Justices Loosen Ad Restrictions In Campaign Law. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2000; Moore and Armstrong 2003).

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

Two authors: (Moore and Armstrong 2003)
Three or more authors: (Haine et al. 2008)

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