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

Hauser, M., 2005. Our chimpanzee mind. Nature 437, 60–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Begley, C.G., Ellis, L.M., 2012. Drug development: Raise standards for preclinical cancer research. Nature 483, 531–533.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kunchulia, M., Pilz, K.S., Herzog, M.H., 2014. Small effects of smoking on visual spatiotemporal processing. Sci. Rep. 4, 7316.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hu, H., Ji, D., Zeng, X., Liu, K., Gan, Q., 2013. Rainbow trapping in hyperbolic metamaterial waveguide. Sci. Rep. 3, 1249.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hammes, G.G., 2005. Spectroscopy for the Biological Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dignum, F.P.M., Eijk, R.M. van, Flores, R. (Eds.), 2006. Agent Communication II: International Workshops on Agent Communication, AC 2005 and AC 2006, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 25, 2005, and Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Selected and Revised Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chubarikov, V.N., 2006. On the Hilbert-Kamke and the Vinogradov Problems in Additive Number Theory, in: Zhang, W., Tanigawa, Y. (Eds.), Number Theory: Tradition and Modernization, Developments in Mathematics. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 27–37.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Ancient Orkney Islanders Had An Extremely Gory And Bizarre Death Ritual [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/ancient-orkney-islanders-extremely-gory-bizarre-death-ritual/ (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, 2007. Business Systems Modernization: Strategy for Evolving DOD’s Business Enterprise Architecture Offers a Conceptual Approach, but Execution Details Are Needed (No. GAO-07-451). 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

Harrison, A.B., 2012. Knowing the familiar (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

Sisario, B., 2017. McCartney Sues to Get Back His Songs. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hauser, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Begley and Ellis, 2012; Hauser, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Begley and Ellis, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al., 2013)

About the journal

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