How to format your references using the Phytochemistry Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Phytochemistry Reviews. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Laming JM (2010) Astronomy. More supernova surprises. Science 329:1604–1605

A journal article with 2 authors

Quasdorf KW, Overman LE (2014) Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of quaternary carbon stereocentres. Nature 516:181–191

A journal article with 3 authors

Hunte C, Zickermann V, Brandt U (2010) Functional modules and structural basis of conformational coupling in mitochondrial complex I. Science 329:448–451

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tumbula DL, Becker HD, Chang WZ, Söll D (2000) Domain-specific recruitment of amide amino acids for protein synthesis. Nature 407:106–110

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ferrari ML, Damo UM, Turan A, Sánchez D (2017) Hybrid Systems Based on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Cattaneo C (ed) (2011) Relatività generale. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Madanhire I, Mbohwa C (2016) Green Lubricant Design and Practice Concept. In: Mbohwa C (ed) Mitigating Environmental Impact of Petroleum Lubricants. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 47–58

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 Reviews.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) New Species Of Snail Named For Marriage Equality. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1981) Award of Grant by Education. 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

Clark BM (2013) Faculty Perceptions of the Importance of Internationalizing the General Education Curriculum in the Florida College System. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Pilon M (2013) Sprinter in 1988 Olympic Scandal Denounces Doping. New York Times B18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Laming 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Laming 2010; Quasdorf and Overman 2014).

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

Two authors: (Quasdorf and Overman 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tumbula et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Phytochemistry Reviews
Abbreviation	Phytochem. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1568-7767
ISSN (online)	1572-980X
Scope	Plant Science Biotechnology