How to format your references using the Crop Science citation style

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

Zoller, P. 2000. Tricks with a single photon. Nature 404(6776): 340–341.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilson, T.D., and Y. Bar-Anan. 2008. Psychology. The unseen mind. Science 321(5892): 1046–1047.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ehrsson, H.H., C. Spence, and R.E. Passingham. 2004. That’s my hand! Activity in premotor cortex reflects feeling of ownership of a limb. Science 305(5685): 875–877.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Zhu, P., J. Liu, J. Bess Jr, E. Chertova, J.D. Lifson, et al. 2006. Distribution and three-dimensional structure of AIDS virus envelope spikes. Nature 441(7095): 847–852.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Estopinal, S.V., and W. Lathrop. 2011. Professional Surveyors and Real Property Descriptions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

An edited book

Jarke, M., J. Mylopoulos, C. Quix, C. Rolland, Y. Manolopoulos, et al., editors. 2014. Advanced Information Systems Engineering: 26th International Conference, CAiSE 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 16-20, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kribich, R.K. 2012. Refractometric Photonic Chips for Biosensing. In: Fritzsche, W. and Popp, J., editors, Optical Nano- and Microsystems for Bioanalytics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. p. 155–180

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 Crop Science.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2017. Earliest Evidence Of Human Impact On Geological Processes Is 11,500 Years Old. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earliest-evidence-of-human-impact-on-geological-processes-dates-to-11500-years-ago/ (accessed 30 October 2018).

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. 1992. Department of Education: The Eisenhower Math and Science State Grant Program. 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

Cong, M. 2017. A Comparative Analysis of Acculturative Stress Among Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese International Students at a Hispanic Serving University.

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. 2006. Justices to Say When Police Can Enter Private Home. New York Times: A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zoller, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Zoller, 2000; Wilson and Bar-Anan, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Wilson and Bar-Anan, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Zhu et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Crop Science
Abbreviation	Crop Sci.
ISSN (print)	0011-183X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science