How to format your references using the Phytochemistry Letters citation style

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

Omelon, S., 2004. Graduate journal: from biochemist to engineer. Nature 427, 180.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hubbard, J., Shaw, J.H., 2009. Uplift of the Longmen Shan and Tibetan plateau, and the 2008 Wenchuan (M = 7.9) earthquake. Nature 458, 194–197.

A journal article with 3 authors

Munsky, B., Neuert, G., van Oudenaarden, A., 2012. Using gene expression noise to understand gene regulation. Science 336, 183–187.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Takasugi, N., Tomita, T., Hayashi, I., Tsuruoka, M., Niimura, M., Takahashi, Y., Thinakaran, G., Iwatsubo, T., 2003. The role of presenilin cofactors in the gamma-secretase complex. Nature 422, 438–441.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Möller, G., 2013. Geotechnik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Maynard, A.E., 2005. Learning in Cultural Context: Family, Peers, and School, International and Cultural Psychology Series. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Webster, J.I., Moayeri, M., Sternberg, E.M., 2006. Anthrax Lethal Factor Represses Glucocorticoid and Progesterone Receptor Activity, in: Welsh, C.J., Meagher, M.W., Sternberg, E.M. (Eds.), Neural and Neuroendocrine Mechanisms in Host Defense and Autoimmunity. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 57–80.

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 Letters.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Hope: The First Arab Space Probe Planned To Go To Mars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/hope-first-arab-space-probe-go-mars/ (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, 1977. Office of Education’s Basic Grant Program Can Be Improved (No. HRD-77-91). 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

Sowers, P.A., 2012. “Klanaheim”: Suburbia, civic identity, and the second Ku Klux Klan (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

GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS, 2010. Love That Look, Wonder Woman. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Omelon, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Hubbard and Shaw, 2009; Omelon, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Hubbard and Shaw, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Takasugi et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Phytochemistry Letters
Abbreviation	Phytochem. Lett.
ISSN (print)	1874-3900
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science Biochemistry Biotechnology