How to format your references using the Natural Product Research citation style

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

Amelino-Camelia G. 2007. Theoretical physics: walk the Planck. Nature. 448(7151):257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tobias DJ, Hemminger JC. 2008. Chemistry. Getting specific about specific ion effects. Science. 319(5867):1197–1198.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu Y, Grey F, Zheng Q. 2014. The high-speed sliding friction of graphene and novel routes to persistent superlubricity. Sci Rep. 4:4875.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Hassey R, Swain EJ, Hammer NI, Venkataraman D, Barnes MD. 2006. Probing the chiroptical response of a single molecule. Science. 314(5804):1437–1439.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lewis RJ Sr. 2008. Hazardous Chemicals Desk Reference, Sixth Edition. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Leszczynski J, Shukla MK, editors. 2012. Practical Aspects of Computational Chemistry I: An Overview of the Last Two Decades and Current Trends. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Herzog A, Shahmehri N. 2007. Usability and Security of Personal Firewalls. In: Venter H, Eloff M, Labuschagne L, Eloff J, Solms R von, editors. New Approaches for Security, Privacy and Trust in Complex Environments: Proceedings of the IFIP TC-11 22nd International Information Security Conference (SEC 2007), 14–16 May 2007, Sandton, South Africa. Boston, MA: Springer US; p. 37–48.

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 Natural Product Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. They Might Sound Gross, But Intestinal Worms Can Actually Be Good For You. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/they-might-sound-gross-intestinal-worms-can-actually-be-good-tor-you/

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. 2003. Computer-Based Patient Records: Short-Term Progress Made, but Much Work Remains to Achieve a Two-Way Data Exchange Between VA and DOD Health Systems. Washington, DC: 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

Herrera K. 2010. Improved transportation for older adult volunteers: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wassener B, Hui M. 2013. Hong Kong Rents Push Out Mom and Pop Stores. New York Times.:B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Amelino-Camelia 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Amelino-Camelia 2007; Tobias and Hemminger 2008).

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

Two authors: (Tobias and Hemminger 2008)
Three or more authors: (Hassey et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Natural Product Research
ISSN (print)	1478-6419
ISSN (online)	1478-6427
Scope	Plant Science Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Organic Chemistry