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

Halavais A. Social science: Open up online research. Nature 2011;480(7376):174–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vance SA, Sandros MG. Zeptomole detection of C-reactive protein in serum by a nanoparticle amplified surface plasmon resonance imaging aptasensor. Sci Rep 2014;4:5129.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu Z, Zhang XS, Zhang S. Breast tumor subgroups reveal diverse clinical prognostic power. Sci Rep 2014;4:4002.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yin P, Choi HMT, Calvert CR, Pierce NA. Programming biomolecular self-assembly pathways. Nature 2008;451(7176):318–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Biegelman MT. Faces of Fraud. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Anderson T. Beginning Microsoft Word 2010. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Huysmans P, Verelst J. Towards an Engineering-Based Research Approach for Enterprise Architecture: Lessons Learned from Normalized Systems Theory. In: Franch X, Soffer P, editors. Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops: CAiSE 2013 International Workshops, Valencia, Spain, June 17-21, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. page 58–72.

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

Taub B. Chimps Feel Decidedly “Meh’ Towards Others. IFLScience2016;

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. Aviation Security: Better Planning Needed to Optimize Deployment of Checked Baggage Screening Systems. 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

Szurley JC. The use of edge detection techniques to analyze thoracoabdominal movement and infer breathing volume. 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

Abad S, Casey N. Francis Honors 2 Clerics Slain in Colombian Civil War. New York Times2017;A7.

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