How to format your references using the Buletin Agrohorti citation style

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

McCann, K. 2007. Protecting biostructure. Nature 446:29.

A journal article with 2 authors

de Wit, M., J. Stankiewicz. 2006. Changes in surface water supply across Africa with predicted climate change. Science 311:1917–1921.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chevrier, V., F. Poulet, J.-P. Bibring. 2007. Early geochemical environment of Mars as determined from thermodynamics of phyllosilicates. Nature 448:60–63.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Karski, M., L. Förster, J.-M. Choi, A. Steffen, W. Alt, D. Meschede, A. Widera. 2009. Quantum walk in position space with single optically trapped atoms. Science 325:174–177.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramsinghani, M. 2014. The Business of Venture Capital. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, pp.

An edited book

Cheng, T., editor. 2015. Hematopoietic Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, 1st ed. 2015. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, VI, 128 p. 21 illus., 11 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Boţ, R.I., S.-M. Grad, G. Wanka. 2009. Conjugate vector duality via scalarization. In S.-M. Grad, G. Wanka (eds.). Duality in Vector Optimization., Vector Optimization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 123–180.

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 Buletin Agrohorti.

Blog post

Hale, T. 2016. A Chinese Doctor Is Now Planning A Human Head Transplant. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-chinese-doctor-is-now-planning-a-human-head-transplant/. Accessed October 30, 2018 IFLScience.

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. 1998. Intercity Passenger Rail: Prospects for Amtrak’s Financial Viability. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, pp.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kelly, J.C. 2012. The fluid evolution of the Mount Mica and Irish Pit pegmatites, Maine: Evidence from stable isotopes. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA pp.

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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. 2005. Arts, Briefly; Rostropovich Quits Moscow Opera. New York Times E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McCann, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (de Wit and Stankiewicz, 2006; McCann, 2007).

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

Two authors: (de Wit and Stankiewicz, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Karski et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Buletin Agrohorti
ISSN (print)	2337-3407
ISSN (online)	2614-3194
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