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

Le Hur, K., 2015. Condensed-matter physics: Quantum dots and the Kondo effect. Nature 526, 203–204.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lumpkin, E.A., Caterina, M.J., 2007. Mechanisms of sensory transduction in the skin. Nature 445, 858–865.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pornillos, O., Ganser-Pornillos, B.K., Yeager, M., 2011. Atomic-level modelling of the HIV capsid. Nature 469, 424–427.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Thier, P., Dicke, P.W., Haas, R., Barash, S., 2000. Encoding of movement time by populations of cerebellar Purkinje cells. Nature 405, 72–76.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Medhurst, D., 2008. A Brief and Practical Guide to EU Law. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Howe, R., Hunziker, M., Willenbring, J.F. (Eds.), 2014. Symmetry: Representation Theory and Its Applications: In Honor of Nolan R. Wallach, Progress in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, J., Wang, X., 2011. Discrete Sliding Mode Control, in: Wang, X. (Ed.), Advanced Sliding Mode Control for Mechanical Systems: Design, Analysis and MATLAB Simulation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 97–110.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. Atomic Oxygen Has Been Detected In Mars’ Atmosphere [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/atomic-oxygen-has-been-detected-mars-atmosphere/ (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, 2011. IT Dashboard: Accuracy Has Improved, and Additional Efforts Are Under Way to Better Inform Decision Making (No. GAO-12-210). 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

Ploehs, J.R., 2009. The literacy benefits of middle school tutors who tutor emergent readers (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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

Gorman, J., 2016. Paralyzed Monkeys Can Walk Again With Wireless Brain-Spine Connection. New York Times A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Le Hur, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Le Hur, 2015; Lumpkin and Caterina, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Lumpkin and Caterina, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Thier et al., 2000)

About the journal

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