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

Thomas, C.D., 2013. The Anthropocene could raise biological diversity. Nature 502, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Korb, M.A., Thakkar, U., 2011. SPORE series winner. Facilitating scientific investigations and training data scientists. Science 333, 534–535.

A journal article with 3 authors

Walsh, J.P., Cho, C., Cohen, W.M., 2005. Science and law. View from the bench: patents and material transfers. Science 309, 2002–2003.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lopez-Vaamonde, C., Koning, J.W., Brown, R.M., Jordan, W.C., Bourke, A.F.G., 2004. Social parasitism by male-producing reproductive workers in a eusocial insect. Nature 430, 557–560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Doldi, L., 2005. Validation of Communications Systems with SDL. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Wu, Y. (Ed.), 2011. Computing and Intelligent Systems: International Conference, ICCIC 2011, Wuhan, China, September 17-18, 2011, Proceedings, Part III, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Fushimi, T., Satoh, T., Saito, K., Kazama, K., Kando, N., 2016. Content Centrality Measure for Networks: Introducing Distance-Based Decay Weights, in: Spiro, E., Ahn, Y.-Y. (Eds.), Social Informatics: 8th International Conference, SocInfo 2016, Bellevue, WA, USA, November 11-14, 2016, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 40–54.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. Top Republicans Propose Carbon Tax Plan To Stop Climate Change [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2012. Postsecondary Education: Financial Trends in Public and Private Nonprofit Institutions (No. GAO-12-179). 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

Uzoff, P.P., 2014. Virtual school teacher’s science efficacy beliefs: The effects of community of practice on science-teaching efficacy beliefs (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Hollander, S., 2000. Bryan Twins End Run of Opening-Round Losses. New York Times D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thomas, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Korb and Thakkar, 2011; Thomas, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Korb and Thakkar, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lopez-Vaamonde et al., 2004)

About the journal

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