How to format your references using the Journal of Ethnopharmacology citation style

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

Norrby, S.R., 2004. Alert to a European epidemic. Nature 431, 507–508.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nesbit, J., Bradford, M., 2010. 2009 Visualization Challenge. Science 327, 945–955.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, X., Su, Y., Fan, Z.H., 2014. Cotinine concentration in serum correlates with tobacco smoke-induced emphysema in mice. Sci. Rep. 4, 3864.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, Q., Zhang, H., Ma, G., Liao, Y., Tang, X., Zhong, Z., 2014. Spectrum gaps of spin waves generated by interference in a uniform nanostripe waveguide. Sci. Rep. 4, 5917.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harris, J., 2013. The Utopian Globalists. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford.

An edited book

Agresti, A., Meng, X.-L. (Eds.), 2013. Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Johnson, L., 2016. What Is Social Capital?, in: Greenberg, A.G., Gullotta, T.P., Bloom, M. (Eds.), Social Capital and Community Well-Being: The Serve Here Initiative, Issues in Children’s and Families’ Lives. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 53–66.

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 Journal of Ethnopharmacology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Thousands Of Darwin’s Hand-Written Manuscripts Made Available Online [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/thousands-darwins-hand-written-manuscripts-made-available-online/ (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, 2007. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Further Actions Needed to Effectively Manage Risks (No. GAO-08-183T). 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

Ghafoori, H.D., 2010. Working with Muslim children and families: A training program for child welfare social workers (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Smith, M., Pérez-Peña, R., Bromwich, J.E., 2016. Iowa Man Surrenders After Two Police Officers Are Ambushed Overnight. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Norrby, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Nesbit and Bradford, 2010; Norrby, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Nesbit and Bradford, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Ethnopharmacology
Abbreviation	J. Ethnopharmacol.
ISSN (print)	0378-8741
Scope	Drug Discovery Pharmacology