How to format your references using the Phytochemistry Letters citation style

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

Bevan, M., 2003. Plant science. Surprises inside a green grass genome. Science 300, 1514–1515.

A journal article with 2 authors

Emery, N.J., Clayton, N.S., 2004. The mentality of crows: convergent evolution of intelligence in corvids and apes. Science 306, 1903–1907.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nguyen, T.D., Ehrenfreund, E., Vardeny, Z.V., 2012. Spin-polarized light-emitting diode based on an organic bipolar spin valve. Science 337, 204–209.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ahmad, S., Gupta, S., Kumar, R., Varshney, G.C., Raghava, G.P.S., 2014. Herceptin resistance database for understanding mechanism of resistance in breast cancer patients. Sci. Rep. 4, 4483.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Le Bodic, G., 2005. Mobile Messaging Technologies and Services. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ribes, R., Luna, A., Ros, P.R., Catalano, C. (Eds.), 2009. Imaging diagnostico: 100 casi dalla pratica clinica. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Stranieri, A., Zeleznikow, J., 2005. Legal Issues in the Data Transformation Phase, in: Zeleznikow, J. (Ed.), Knowledge Discovery from Legal Databases, Law and Philosophy Library. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 59–82.

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 Letters.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Your Brain Is Designed For Reading Even Before You Learn Your ABCs [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, 2002. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes (No. GAO-02-379R). 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

Sindel, K.D., 2010. Can experiential education strategies improve elementary science teachers’ perceptions of and practices in science teaching? (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Hay, G., Cyran, R., 2011. Long Road Back for Greek Banks. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bevan, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bevan, 2003; Emery and Clayton, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Emery and Clayton, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Ahmad et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Phytochemistry Letters
Abbreviation	Phytochem. Lett.
ISSN (print)	1874-3900
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science Biochemistry Biotechnology