How to format your references using the Pharmacognosy Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pharmacognosy Journal. 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

Bernardini E. Astronomy. Astronomy in the time domain. Science. 2011;331(6018):686-687.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miltat J, Thiaville A. Ferromagnetism. Vortex cores--smaller than small. Science. 2002;298(5593):555.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dillon ME, Wang G, Huey RB. Global metabolic impacts of recent climate warming. Nature. 2010;467(7316):704-706.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Murphy K, Frazer KA, Loots G, Rubin EM. Database searches for binding sites. Science. 2000;288(5475):2319a.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon MJ Jr. Total Quality Process Control for Injection Molding. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Gunopulos D, Hofmann T, Malerba D, Vazirgiannis M, eds. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2011, Athens, Greece, September 5-9, 2011, Proceedings, Part III. Vol 6913. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Beckers G, Hannula A. Deborah Britzman. In: Kirylo JD, ed. A Critical Pedagogy of Resistance: 34 Pedagogues We Need to Know. Transgressions. SensePublishers; 2013:13-16.

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 Pharmacognosy Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E. NASA’s HiRISE Camera Shows The Frosty Valleys Of Mars. IFLScience.

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. Nanotechnology: Better Guidance Is Needed to Ensure Accurate Reporting of Federal Research Focused on Environmental, Health, and Safety Risks. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McLeod DJ. From Fear to Freedom: Overcoming Obstacles and Living Truthfully in a Role. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Genzlinger N, Hale M, Lyons M, Brantley B. Vacation Selections For Trump. New York Times. August 8, 2017:C1.

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	Pharmacognosy Journal
ISSN (print)	0975-3575
Scope	Drug Discovery Pharmacology