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 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

Perry ML (2015) BATTERIES. Expanding the chemical space for redox flow batteries. Science 349:1452

A journal article with 2 authors

Kara P, Boyd JD (2009) A micro-architecture for binocular disparity and ocular dominance in visual cortex. Nature 458:627–631

A journal article with 3 authors

Vega AV, Avila G, Matthews G (2013) Interaction between the transcriptional corepressor Sin3B and voltage-gated sodium channels modulates functional channel expression. Sci Rep 3:2809

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhong TP, Childs S, Leu JP, Fishman MC (2001) Gridlock signalling pathway fashions the first embryonic artery. Nature 414:216–220

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ward S (2014) TraderMind. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Miesenberger K, Karshmer A, Penaz P, Zagler W (eds) (2012) Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 13th International Conference, ICCHP 2012, Linz, Austria, July 11-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Mrozynski G, Stallein M (2013) Magnetic Field of Stationary Currents. In: Stallein M (ed) Electromagnetic Field Theory: A Collection of Problems. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp 99–125

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 (2016) Animals Inherit Their Mother’s Social Network. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/animals-inherit/. 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 (2005) Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Sulaiman Y (2008) The Banteng and the Eagle: Indonesian Foreign Policy and the United States During the Era of Sukarno 1945-1967. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Macintyre B (2017) The Fog of War. New York Times BR12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perry 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kara and Boyd 2009; Perry 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kara and Boyd 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zhong et al. 2001)

About the journal

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