How to format your references using the Crop Protection citation style

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

Ellemers, N., 2012. The group self. Science 336, 848–852.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chou, K.-M., Cheng, Y.-C., 2002. An exonucleolytic activity of human apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease on 3’ mispaired DNA. Nature 415, 655–659.

A journal article with 3 authors

Visser, K., Thunell, R., Stott, L., 2003. Magnitude and timing of temperature change in the Indo-Pacific warm pool during deglaciation. Nature 421, 152–155.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shen, Y., Joachimiak, A., Rosner, M.R., Tang, W.-J., 2006. Structures of human insulin-degrading enzyme reveal a new substrate recognition mechanism. Nature 443, 870–874.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khouw, M.C., Guthner, M.W., 2016. The Options Edge + Free Trial. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Toutkoushian, R.K., 2016. Economics of Higher Education: Background, Concepts, and Applications, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Maricau, E., Gielen, G., 2013. Analog IC Reliability Simulation, in: Gielen, G. (Ed.), Analog IC Reliability in Nanometer CMOS. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 93–149.

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 Crop Protection.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Is There Actually One Rat for Every Person in New York? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/there-actually-one-rat-every-person-new-york/ (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, 1977. Problems in the Federal Funding of School Bus Driver Training Programs (No. CED-77-60). 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

May, L.A., 2009. Teacher compensation and the academic achievement of high school students (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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Supreme Court Weighs Maine’s Tobacco Law. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ellemers, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Chou and Cheng, 2002; Ellemers, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Chou and Cheng, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Shen et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Crop Protection
Abbreviation	Crop Prot.
ISSN (print)	0261-2194
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science