How to format your references using the Phytomedicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Phytomedicine. 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

Palmer, T., 2014. Atmospheric science. Record-breaking winters and global climate change. Science 344, 803–804.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hashizume, K., Chaussidon, M., 2005. A non-terrestrial 16O-rich isotopic composition for the protosolar nebula. Nature 434, 619–622.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chuck, A.L., Turner, S.M., Liss, P.S., 2002. Direct evidence for a marine source of C1 and C2 alkyl nitrates. Science 297, 1151–1154.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Daley, A.C., Budd, G.E., Caron, J.-B., Edgecombe, G.D., Collins, D., 2009. The Burgess Shale anomalocaridid Hurdia and its significance for early euarthropod evolution. Science 323, 1597–1600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chartered Institute of Building, 2016. Code of Practice for Programme Management in the Built Environment. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Lamm, J., 2010. Under Control: Governance Across the Enterprise. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Warriner, D.S., 2010. Communicative Competence Revisited: An Ethnopoetic Analysis of Narrative Performances of Identity, in: Hult, F.M. (Ed.), Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics, Educational Linguistics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 63–77.

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 Phytomedicine.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. This Hopping Robot Is As Cool As The Desert Rodent That Inspired It [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-hopping-robot-is-as-cool-as-the-desert-rodent-that-inspired-it/ (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, 2008. Freight Transportation: National Policy and Strategies Can Help Improve Freight Mobility (No. GAO-08-287). 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

Wilson, M.B., 2009. Constructions of childhood found in award -winning children’s literature (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Lee, L., 2005. The Multimedia Frank Gehry Now in Cardboard and on Film. New York Times F3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Palmer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hashizume and Chaussidon, 2005; Palmer, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hashizume and Chaussidon, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Daley et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Phytomedicine
Abbreviation	Phytomedicine
ISSN (print)	0944-7113
Scope	Molecular Medicine Complementary and alternative medicine Drug Discovery Pharmaceutical Science Pharmacology