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

Macilwain, C., 2015. Change the cancer conversation. Nature 520, 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller, G.T., Pitnick, S., 2002. Sperm-female coevolution in Drosophila. Science 298, 1230–1233.

A journal article with 3 authors

Achlioptas, D., Naor, A., Peres, Y., 2005. Rigorous location of phase transitions in hard optimization problems. Nature 435, 759–764.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huang, J., Perez-Burgos, L., Placek, B.J., Sengupta, R., Richter, M., Dorsey, J.A., Kubicek, S., Opravil, S., Jenuwein, T., Berger, S.L., 2006. Repression of p53 activity by Smyd2-mediated methylation. Nature 444, 629–632.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raut, R., Swamy, M.N.S., 2010. Modern Analog Filter Analysis and Design. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Hrycay, E.G., Bandiera, S.M. (Eds.), 2015. Monooxygenase, Peroxidase and Peroxygenase Properties and Mechanisms of Cytochrome P450, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Baier, C., Bertrand, N., Bouyer, P., Brihaye, T., 2009. When Are Timed Automata Determinizable?, in: Albers, S., Marchetti-Spaccamela, A., Matias, Y., Nikoletseas, S., Thomas, W. (Eds.), Automata, Languages and Programming: 36th Internatilonal Collogquium, ICALP 2009, Rhodes, Greece, July 5-12, 2009, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 43–54.

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., 2015. Stephen Hawking Claims Aggression Will Be Downfall of Human Race [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1997. Transportation Infrastructure: Managing the Costs of Large-Dollar Highway Projects (No. RCED-97-47). 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

McCarroll, M.L., 2005. Exercise and Airway Clearing Devices in Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programs for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Charkes, J.S., 2009. Scrambling to Enroll More Preschoolers. New York Times NJ3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain, 2015; Miller and Pitnick, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Miller and Pitnick, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al., 2006)

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