How to format your references using the Pharmacognosy Magazine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pharmacognosy Magazine. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Ward-Thompson D. Isolated star formation: from cloud formation to core collapse. Science 2002;295(5552):76–81.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yedid G, Bell G. Macroevolution simulated with autonomously replicating computer programs. Nature 2002;420(6917):810–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mottram DS, Wedzicha BL, Dodson AT. Acrylamide is formed in the Maillard reaction. Nature 2002;419(6906):448–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Goss KH, Risinger MA, Kordich JJ, Sanz MM, Straughen JE, Slovek LE, et al. Enhanced tumor formation in mice heterozygous for Blm mutation. Science 2002;297(5589):2051–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones RB. 20% Chance of Rain. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Cherry KE, editor. Traumatic Stress and Long-Term Recovery: Coping with Disasters and Other Negative Life Events. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Béniguel Y. Antenna Radiation in the Presence of an Infinite Interface. In: Sabath F, Mokole EL, editors. Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics 10. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. page 59–70.

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 Magazine.

Blog post

Luntz S. Sexual Satisfaction Correlates With Intelligence. IFLScience2015;

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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wrobleski MM. The challenge of teen nutrition: An ecological view of socio-cognitive influences on urban, African-American adolescent diet quality. 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

Saslow L. Nassau Comptroller Warns County on Finances. New York Times2007;LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Magazine
Abbreviation	Pharmacogn. Mag.
ISSN (print)	0973-1296
ISSN (online)	0976-4062
Scope	Drug Discovery Pharmaceutical Science