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

Friedman, M.A., 2002. Public health. Strengthening the FDA. Science 298, 2332.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sato, M., Sato, K., 2011. Degradation of paternal mitochondria by fertilization-triggered autophagy in C. elegans embryos. Science 334, 1141–1144.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yi, M., Hong, N., Hong, Y., 2009. Generation of medaka fish haploid embryonic stem cells. Science 326, 430–433.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Collins, P.J., Haire, L.F., Lin, Y.P., Liu, J., Russell, R.J., Walker, P.A., Skehel, J.J., Martin, S.R., Hay, A.J., Gamblin, S.J., 2008. Crystal structures of oseltamivir-resistant influenza virus neuraminidase mutants. Nature 453, 1258–1261.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 2010. A Practical Approach to Hazard Identification for Operations and Maintenance Workers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Munoz, R., da Cruz, E.M., Vetterly, C.G., Cooper, D.S., Berry, D. (Eds.), 2014. Handbook of Pediatric Cardiovascular Drugs, 2nd ed. 2014. ed. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Rahman, H., Barua, S., Ahmed, M.U., Begum, S., Hök, B., 2016. A Case-Based Classification for Drivers’ Alcohol Detection Using Physiological Signals, in: Ahmed, M.U., Begum, S., Raad, W. (Eds.), Internet of Things Technologies for HealthCare: Third International Conference, HealthyIoT 2016, Västerås, Sweden, October 18-19, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 22–29.

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

Evans, K., 2017. Nepal Burns Stockpile Of 4,000 Animal Parts To Fight Trafficking [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/nepal-burns-stockpile-of-4000-animal-parts-to-fight-trafficking/ (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, 1999. Observations on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Fiscal Year 2000 Performance Plan (No. NSIAD-99-186R). 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

Kunihiro, A.G., 2014. The relationship between dietary omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acid intake and colorectal cancer (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Mueller, B., Baker, A.L., 2017. Bullying Seen as Prelude to Classroom Stabbing. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Friedman, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Friedman, 2002; Sato and Sato, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Sato and Sato, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Collins et al., 2008)

About the journal

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