How to format your references using the Fitoterapia citation style

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

[1]

S.N. Patek, Materials science. Biomimetics and evolution, Science 345 (2014) 1448–1449.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Krüger, M. Ohrnberger, Tracking the rupture of the Mw = 9.3 Sumatra earthquake over 1,150 km at teleseismic distance, Nature 435 (2005) 937–939.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Fotso, K. Mikelsons, J.K. Freericks, Thermalization of field driven quantum systems, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4699.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.J. Lohmann, S.D. Cain, S.A. Dodge, C.M. Lohmann, Regional magnetic fields as navigational markers for sea turtles, Science 294 (2001) 364–366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.M. Bonem, Problem Solving for Process Operators and Specialists, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

L. Wang, K. Chen, Y.S. Ong, eds., Advances in Natural Computation: First International Conference, ICNC 2005, Changsha, China, August 27-29, 2005, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Ma, Construction and Operation and Maintenance of Rainwater Harvesting Project, in: Q. Zhu, J. Gould, Y. Li, C. Ma (Eds.), Rainwater Harvesting for Agriculture and Water Supply, Springer, Singapore, 2015: pp. 139–163.

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 Fitoterapia.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Massive Glacier In Northeastern Greenland Is Melting At An Accelerated Rate, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/massive-glacier-northeastern-greenland-melting-accelerated-rate/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Millions in Savings Possible in Converting Programs From One Computer to Another, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Emmerling-Baker, A Qualitative Interpretive Phenomenological Study of K5 Teacher Perceptions of Classroom Empathy Instruction, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2017.

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

[1]

J. Schwartz, Views Conflict on Exxon Mobil’s Ties to Those Who Reject Climate Science, New York Times (2016) A15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Fitoterapia
Abbreviation	Fitoterapia
ISSN (print)	0367-326X
Scope	General Medicine Drug Discovery Pharmacology