How to format your references using the Phytochemistry citation style

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

Mutter, J., 2010. Disasters widen the rich-poor gap. Nature 466, 1042.

A journal article with 2 authors

Snyder, M., Gerstein, M., 2003. Genomics. Defining genes in the genomics era. Science 300, 258–260.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fenton, L.K., Geissler, P.E., Haberle, R.M., 2007. Global warming and climate forcing by recent albedo changes on Mars. Nature 446, 646–649.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hirschey, M.D., Shimazu, T., Goetzman, E., Jing, E., Schwer, B., Lombard, D.B., Grueter, C.A., Harris, C., Biddinger, S., Ilkayeva, O.R., Stevens, R.D., Li, Y., Saha, A.K., Ruderman, N.B., Bain, J.R., Newgard, C.B., Farese, R.V., Jr, Alt, F.W., Kahn, C.R., Verdin, E., 2010. SIRT3 regulates mitochondrial fatty-acid oxidation by reversible enzyme deacetylation. Nature 464, 121–125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Church, R.L., Murray, A.T., 2008. Business Site Selection, Location Analysis and GIS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mascio, T.D., Gennari, R., Vittorini, P., De la Prieta, F. (Eds.), 2015. Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bonet, M.L., Buss, S., 2012. An Improved Separation of Regular Resolution from Pool Resolution and Clause Learning, in: Cimatti, A., Sebastiani, R. (Eds.), Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing – SAT 2012: 15th International Conference, Trento, Italy, June 17-20, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 44–57.

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 Phytochemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. When It Comes To Mental Health, Parents Shouldn’t Worry Who Their Children Are Friends With [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/when-it-comes-mental-health-parents-shouldn-t-worry-who-their-children-are-friends/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2008. Higher Education: Multiple Higher Education Tax Incentives Create Opportunities for Taxpayers to Make Costly Mistakes (No. GAO-08-717T). 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

Mueller, C., 2012. A Multidimensional Perspective of Faculty Mentoring and Job Satisfaction during the First Year of Teaching at Lindenwood University (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Brantley, B., 2017. Returning to Broadway on Heavier Wings. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mutter, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Mutter, 2010; Snyder and Gerstein, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Snyder and Gerstein, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Hirschey et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Phytochemistry
Abbreviation	Phytochemistry
ISSN (print)	0031-9422
Scope	Horticulture Plant Science Biochemistry Molecular Biology General Medicine