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How to input reference information

Journals

Format
Journal information is organized as a page title in the Reference namespace:

AUTHORS, JOURNAL, YEAR, VOLUME, PAGE

Five parameters are separated by comma (,) and for this reason, you cannot use commas in the journal title or author names.

1. AUTHORS are abbreviated in the PubMed style, and authors are separated by colon (:). Please add a colon after the last author.
2. JOURNAL must be exactly one of listed in this journal title page.
3. YEAR is 4-digit.
4. VOLUME does not include the issue number.
5. PAGE is the first page only.

Example

Reference:Saxena VK:Sharma DN:,J. Inst. Chem. (India),1998,70,179

• If you cannot find a corresponding journal title in the title page, please contact the administrator: Masanori Arita (arita AT k.u-tokyo.ac.jp).

Books

Format.
Book information is organized as a page title in the Reference namespace:

AUTHORS, TITLE, YEAR, PUBLISHER, PLACE, CHAPTER

Six parameters are separated by comma (,) and for this reason, you cannot use commas in the book title or author names.

1. AUTHORS are abbreviated in the PubMed style, and authors are separated by semicolon (:).
2. TITLE should not be abbreviated (to avoid inconsistency).
3. YEAR is 4-digit.
4. PUBLISHER should not be abbreviated (to avoid inconsistency).
5. PLACE is the place of issue.
6. CHAPTER is an optional digit.

Example.

Reference:Harborne:,Phytochemical Dictionary 2nd Edition,1999,Taylor and Francis,London,41

• Book reference is strongly discouraged because they are not original references. We spend enormous effort to replace book references with the original journal articles.