How to format your references using the Phytochemistry citation style

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

Dobson, C.M., 2002. Getting out of shape. Nature 418, 729–730.

A journal article with 2 authors

Garcia, C.M., Ramirez, E., 2005. Evidence that sensory traps can evolve into honest signals. Nature 434, 501–505.

A journal article with 3 authors

Loudon, J.C., Mathur, N.D., Midgley, P.A., 2002. Charge-ordered ferromagnetic phase in La(0.5)Ca(0.5)MnO3. Nature 420, 797–800.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fu, W., Du, F.-H., Su, J., Li, X.-H., Wei, X., Ye, T.-N., Wang, K.-X., Chen, J.-S., 2014. In situ catalytic growth of large-area multilayered graphene/MoS2 heterostructures. Sci. Rep. 4, 4673.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mackevičius, V., 2011. Introduction to Stochastic Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Grehn, F., Stamper, R. (Eds.), 2009. Glaucoma, Essentials in Ophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Aseeva, R., Serkov, B., Sivenkov, A., 2014. The Ignition of Timber, in: Serkov, B., Sivenkov, A. (Eds.), Fire Behavior and Fire Protection in Timber Buildings, Springer Series in Wood Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 89–117.

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 Phytochemistry.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Scientists Take First X-Ray Images Of Living Bacteria [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2012. K-12 Education: Selected States and School Districts Cited Numerous Federal Requirements As Burdensome, While Recognizing Some Benefits (No. GAO-12-672). 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

Megowan, G., 2012. A correlation study of emotional intelligence and behavioral style of bio-pharmaceutical industry District Sales Managers (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Witz, B., 2016. Judge Dismisses Familia’s Criminal Case. New York Times B8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dobson, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Dobson, 2002; Garcia and Ramirez, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Garcia and Ramirez, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Fu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Phytochemistry
Abbreviation	Phytochemistry
ISSN (print)	0031-9422
Scope	Horticulture Plant Science Biochemistry Molecular Biology General Medicine