How to format your references using the Pharmacognosy Reviews citation style

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

Kher U. A call for collaboration. Nature 2010;466(7304):S21-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller JR, Simon P. Materials science. Electrochemical capacitors for energy management. Science 2008;321(5889):651–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Corwin EI, Jaeger HM, Nagel SR. Structural signature of jamming in granular media. Nature 2005;435(7045):1075–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Varricchio DJ, Moore JR, Erickson GM, Norell MA, Jackson FD, Borkowski JJ. Avian paternal care had dinosaur origin. Science 2008;322(5909):1826–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minelli M, Chambers M, Dhiraj A. Big Data, Big Analytics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Arestis P, Sawyer M, editors. Financial Liberalisation: Past, Present and Future. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Czeskis A, Balfanz D. Protected Login. In: Blyth J, Dietrich S, Camp LJ, editors. Financial Cryptography and Data Security: FC 2012 Workshops, USEC and WECSR 2012, Kralendijk, Bonaire, March 2, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. page 44–52.

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 Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew E. Infections Of The Mind: Why Anti-Vaxxers Just ‘Know’ They’re Right [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/infections-mind-why-anti-vaxxers-just-know-they-re-right/

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. Environmental Satellites: Improvements Needed in NOAA’s Mitigation Strategies as It Prepares for Potential Satellite Coverage Gaps. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Miller RJ. An Investigation Examining the Perceived Implications of Principal Leadership Changing A Large Comprehensive High School into Smaller Learning Communities. 2012;

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

Wagner J. Extra Innings and Late-Game Twists. New York Times2017;A2.

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 Reviews
Abbreviation	Pharmacogn. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0973-7847
ISSN (online)	0976-2787
Scope	Plant Science Complementary and alternative medicine Drug Discovery Pharmacology