How to format your references using the Chinese Herbal Medicines citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Herbal Medicines. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Goldston, D. (2007). Washington, we have a problem. Nature, 446(7133), 244.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kofman, A. G., & Kurizki, G. (2000). Acceleration of quantum decay processes by frequent observations. Nature, 405(6786), 546–550.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, B.-S., Noda, S., & Asano, T. (2003). Photonic devices based on in-plane hetero photonic crystals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5625), 1537.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Alcaraz Iranzo, D., Nanot, S., Dias, E. J. C., Epstein, I., Peng, C., Efetov, D. K., Lundeberg, M. B., Parret, R., Osmond, J., Hong, J.-Y., Kong, J., Englund, D. R., Peres, N. M. R., & Koppens, F. H. L. (2018). Probing the ultimate plasmon confinement limits with a van der Waals heterostructure. Science (New York, N.Y.), 360(6386), 291–295.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vaughan, D., Robinson, N., Lucas, N., & Arulkumaran, S. (2010). Handbook of Obstetric High Dependency Care. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Syed, K. T. (Ed.). (2012). Through White Noise: Autonarrative Exploration of Racism, Discrimination, and the Doorways to Academic Citizenship in Canada (Vol. 87). SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Huang, W., Jiao, L., Ma, S., & Xu, Y. (2005). Analytical Solution for Dynamic of Neuronal Populations. In W. Duch, J. Kacprzyk, E. Oja, & S. Zadrożny (Eds.), Artificial Neural Networks: Biological Inspirations – ICANN 2005: 15th International Conference, Warsaw, Poland, September 11-15, 2005. Proceedings, Part I (pp. 19–24). Springer.

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 Chinese Herbal Medicines.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013, November 27). Stone-Tipped Spears Were Around Before Homo Sapiens. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/stone-tipped-spears-were-around-homo-sapiens/

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. (2011). Recovery Act Education Programs: Survey of School Districts’ Uses of Funds (GAO-11-885SP, September 2011), an E-supplement to GAO-11-804 (GAO-11-885SP). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Cross, A. (2017). Tinkering in k-12: an exploratory mixed methods study of makerspaces in schools as an application of constructivist learning [Doctoral dissertation]. Pepperdine University.

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

Kelly, M. (1972, November 5). Underneath the Tire Treads. New York Times, GREATER NEW YORK AUTOMOBILE SHOWA15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston, 2007; Kofman & Kurizki, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Kofman & Kurizki, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Alcaraz Iranzo et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Chinese Herbal Medicines
ISSN (print)	1674-6384
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