How to format your references using the Pharmacognosy Magazine citation style

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

Schlütter J. Therapeutics: new drugs hit the target. Nature 2011;474(7350):S5-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kueh HY, Mitchison TJ. Structural plasticity in actin and tubulin polymer dynamics. Science 2009;325(5943):960–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pahwa S, Scoglio C, Scala A. Abruptness of cascade failures in power grids. Sci Rep 2014;4:3694.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhou P, Ross RA, Pywell CM, Liangpunsakul S, Duffield GE. Disturbances in the murine hepatic circadian clock in alcohol-induced hepatic steatosis. Sci Rep 2014;4:3725.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stephanie Hammer. Architects of Electronic Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Chaudhuri K, Chatterjee SN, editors. Cholera Toxins. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Schiefer HG, Diemer T, Weidner W. Urosepsis. In: Hohenfellner M, Santucci RA, editors. Emergencies in Urology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. page 45–9.

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 Pharmacognosy Magazine.

Blog post

Taub B. Hispanic People Experience More Severe Alzheimer’s Symptoms, Claims Study [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hispanic-people-experience-more-severe-alzheimers-symptoms-claims-study/

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. Education Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Priddy JDJ. As Tufa to Sapphire: Gendering the Roles of Medieval Women in Combat. 2014;

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

Greenhouse L. Justices Reject Immunity Below State Level. New York Times2006;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	Pharmacognosy Magazine
Abbreviation	Pharmacogn. Mag.
ISSN (print)	0973-1296
ISSN (online)	0976-4062
Scope	Drug Discovery Pharmaceutical Science