How to format your references using the Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine. 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

Hoshino M (2003) Space physics. Coupling across many scales. Science 299:834–835

A journal article with 2 authors

Sabel T, Zschocher M (2013) Transition of refractive index contrast in course of grating growth. Sci Rep 3:2552

A journal article with 3 authors

González MC, Hidalgo CA, Barabási A-L (2008) Understanding individual human mobility patterns. Nature 453:779–782

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Carro MS, Lim WK, Alvarez MJ, et al (2010) The transcriptional network for mesenchymal transformation of brain tumours. Nature 463:318–325

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Katsilambros N, Diakoumopoulou E, Ioannidis I, et al (2006) Diabetes in Clinical Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Baglay S, Nakache D (eds) (2014) Immigration Regulation in Federal States: Challenges and Responses in Comparative Perspective. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Ning X, Yan Y, Qu K, Li Z (2010) Reliability Analysis on Wing Structures under the Gust Load. In: Wang FL, Deng H, Gao Y, Lei J (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence: International Conference, AICI 2010, Sanya, China, October 23-24, 2010, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 31–37

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 Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Gene Used In Embryogenesis Can Repair Adult Tissue. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2012) High-Speed Passenger Rail: Preliminary Assessment of California’s Cost Estimates and Other Challenges. 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

Liao X (2006) Creative Learning for Intelligent Robots. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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 (1992) Insult My Mom, Please. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoshino 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hoshino 2003; Sabel and Zschocher 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sabel and Zschocher 2013)
Three or more authors: (Carro et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Oriental Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine
Abbreviation	Orient. Pharm. Exp. Med.
ISSN (print)	1598-2386
ISSN (online)	2211-1069
Scope	Complementary and alternative medicine