How to format your references using the Journal of Medicinal Plants for Economic Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Medicinal Plants for Economic Development (JOMPED). 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

Sheen, J., 2002, ‘Phosphorelay and transcription control in cytokinin signal transduction’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573), 1650–1652.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, M.H. & Saal, F.S. vom, 2000, ‘Maternal age and traits in offspring’, Nature, 407(6803), 469–470.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weiss, E., Kislev, M.E. & Hartmann, A., 2006, ‘Anthropology. Autonomous cultivation before domestication’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5780), 1608–1610.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shin, J., Bossenz, M., Chung, Y., Ma, H., Byron, M., Taniguchi-Ishigaki, N., Zhu, X., Jiao, B., Hall, L.L., Green, M.R., Jones, S.N., Hermans-Borgmeyer, I., Lawrence, J.B. & Bach, I., 2010, ‘Maternal Rnf12/RLIM is required for imprinted X-chromosome inactivation in mice’, Nature, 467(7318), 977–981.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiens, J.A., 2016, Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Yonekawa, Y., Keller, E., Sakurai, Y. & Tsukahara, T. (eds.), 2005, New Trends of Surgery for Stroke and its Perioperative Management, vol. 94, Springer, Vienna.

A chapter in an edited book

Oku, K., Tung, T.S. & Hattori, F., 2011, ‘Collaborative Filtering for Predicting Users’ Potential Preferences’, in A. König, A. Dengel, K. Hinkelmann, K. Kise, R.J. Howlett & L.C. Jain (eds.), Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 15th International Conference, KES 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 12-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part IV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science., pp. 44–52, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Medicinal Plants for Economic Development.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016, Greenland’s Ice Loss Has Been Massively Underestimated, IFLScience.

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, 1978, Status of the Air Force’s Missile X Program, 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

Bustos, I., 2017, Backpacking Through My Suburban Barrio: Eco-Latina Diaries – PhD thesis, 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

Dorman, J.L., 2016, Hot Steaks With a Cool Vibe, New York Times, p. TR11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sheen 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Wang & vom Saal 2000; Sheen 2002).

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

Two authors: (Wang & vom Saal 2000)
Three or more authors: (Shin et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Medicinal Plants for Economic Development
ISSN (print)	2519-559X
ISSN (online)	2616-4809
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