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

Manabe T (2002) Does BDNF have pre- or postsynaptic targets? Science 295:1651–1653

A journal article with 2 authors

Kilpatrick AM, Ives AR (2003) Species interactions can explain Taylor’s power law for ecological time series. Nature 422:65–68

A journal article with 3 authors

Lassus P, Opitz-Araya X, Lazebnik Y (2002) Requirement for caspase-2 in stress-induced apoptosis before mitochondrial permeabilization. Science 297:1352–1354

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Han TA, Pereira LM, Santos FC, Lenaerts T (2013) Good agreements make good friends. Sci Rep 3:2695

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Elliott CH, Smith LL (2010) Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Papasratorn B, Charoenkitkarn N, Vanijja V, Chongsuphajaisiddhi V (eds) (2013) Advances in Information Technology: 6th International Conference, IAIT 2013, Bangkok, Thailand, December 12-13, 2013. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Valmari A, Franceschinis G (2010) Simple O(m logn) Time Markov Chain Lumping. In: Esparza J, Majumdar R (eds) Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 16th International Conference, TACAS 2010, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, March 20-28, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 38–52

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

Andrew E (2015) Encryption Today: How Safe Is It Really? 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 (2008) Aviation and the Environment: FAA’s and NASA’s Research and Development Plans for Noise Reduction Are Aligned but the Prospects of Achieving Noise Reduction Goals Are Uncertain. 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

Bradford J (2012) Commutative endomorphism rings of simple abelian varieties over finite fields. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Koblin J, Rutenberg J (2017) Pelley Said to Be Leaving Anchor Post With CBS News. New York Times B4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Manabe 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Manabe 2002; Kilpatrick and Ives 2003).

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

Two authors: (Kilpatrick and Ives 2003)
Three or more authors: (Han et al. 2013)

About the journal

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