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

Lawrence PA (2004) Last hideout of the unknown? Nature 429:247

A journal article with 2 authors

Vafabakhsh R, Ha T (2012) Extreme bendability of DNA less than 100 base pairs long revealed by single-molecule cyclization. Science 337:1097–1101

A journal article with 3 authors

Levey DJ, Duncan RS, Levins CF (2004) Animal behaviour: use of dung as a tool by burrowing owls. Nature 431:39

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yang D, Peng S, Hartman MR, et al (2013) Enhanced transcription and translation in clay hydrogel and implications for early life evolution. Sci Rep 3:3165

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Teodorescu PP, Kecs WW, Toma A (2013) Distribution Theory. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Özcan A, Chaki N, Nagamalai D (eds) (2010) Recent Trends in Wireless and Mobile Networks: Second International Conference, WiMo 2010, Ankara, Turkey, June 26-28, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Halt GB, Fesnak R, Donch JC, Stiles AR (2014) Domain Names. In: Donch JC Jr, Stiles AR, Fesnak R (eds) Intellectual Property in Consumer Electronics, Software and Technology Startups. Springer, New York, NY, pp 61–66

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

Luntz S (2014) “The Beast” Asteroid Tracked As It Passed Earth By. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/beast-asteroid-tracked-it-passed-earth/. 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 (2004) Electronic Government: Federal Agencies Continue to Invest in Smart Card Technology. 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

Ghafoori E (2014) Wavelet transform and neural network. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Wagner J (2017) For Mets, It’s Injury After Injury, Year After Year. New York Times B9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawrence 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Lawrence 2004; Vafabakhsh and Ha 2012).

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

Two authors: (Vafabakhsh and Ha 2012)
Three or more authors: (Yang 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