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

Linnarsson, S., 2015. NEUROSCIENCE. A tree of the human brain. Science 350, 37.

A journal article with 2 authors

Righelato, R., Spracklen, D.V., 2007. Environment. Carbon mitigation by biofuels or by saving and restoring forests? Science 317, 902.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ding, Y.S., Chan, C.T., Wang, R.P., 2013. Optical waves in a gradient negative-index lens of a half-infinite length. Sci. Rep. 3, 2954.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guenther, U.-P., Weinberg, D.E., Zubradt, M.M., Tedeschi, F.A., Stawicki, B.N., Zagore, L.L., Brar, G.A., Licatalosi, D.D., Bartel, D.P., Weissman, J.S., Jankowsky, E., 2018. The helicase Ded1p controls use of near-cognate translation initiation codons in 5’ UTRs. Nature 559, 130–134.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Waupsh, J., 2016. Bankruption. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Queffélec, H., 2013. Diophantine Approximation and Dirichlet Series. Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon.

A chapter in an edited book

Duran, A., Ferrer, R., Klemm, M., de Supinski, B.R., Ayguadé, E., 2010. A Proposal for User-Defined Reductions in OpenMP, in: Sato, M., Hanawa, T., Müller, M.S., Chapman, B.M., Supinski, B.R. de (Eds.), Beyond Loop Level Parallelism in OpenMP: Accelerators, Tasking and More: 6th Internationan Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2010, Tsukuba, Japan, June 14-16, 2010 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 43–55.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Scientists Discover New Kind Of Sexual Organ [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-discover-new-kind-sexual-organ/ (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, 2014. Media Ownership: FCC Should Review the Effects of Broadcaster Agreements on Its Media Policy Goals (No. GAO-14-558). 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

Song, X., 2015. A New Estimating Equation Based Approach for Secondary Trait Analyses in Genetic Case-control Studies (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2015. Puerto Rico Electric Utility Is Said to Be Near Debt Deal. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Linnarsson, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Linnarsson, 2015; Righelato and Spracklen, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Righelato and Spracklen, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Guenther et al., 2018)

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