How to format your references using the Field Crops Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Field Crops Research. 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

Somorjai, G.A., 2004. On the move. Nature 430, 730.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huard, B., Karlsson, L., 2000. KIR expression on self-reactive CD8+ T cells is controlled by T-cell receptor engagement. Nature 403, 325–328.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bingenheimer, J.B., Brennan, R.T., Earls, F.J., 2005. Firearm violence exposure and serious violent behavior. Science 308, 1323–1326.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Khodri, M., Leclainche, Y., Ramstein, G., Braconnot, P., Marti, O., Cortijo, E., 2001. Simulating the amplification of orbital forcing by ocean feedbacks in the last glaciation. Nature 410, 570–574.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McLeod, L.E., 2016. Leading with Noble Purpose. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Midgley, W., Davies, A., Oliver, M.E., Danaher, P.A. (Eds.), 2014. Echoes: Ethics and Issues of Voice in Education Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Van Dijck, G., Van Hulle, M.M., 2006. Speeding Up the Wrapper Feature Subset Selection in Regression by Mutual Information Relevance and Redundancy Analysis, in: Kollias, S.D., Stafylopatis, A., Duch, W., Oja, E. (Eds.), Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2006: 16th International Conference, Athens, Greece, September 10-14, 2006. Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 31–40.

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 Field Crops Research.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2015. Researchers Can Now 3D Print A Human Heart Using Biological Material [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-heart-can-now-be-3d-printed-using-biological-material/ (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, 2005. Aviation Security: Better Planning Needed to Optimize Deployment of Checked Baggage Screening Systems (No. GAO-05-896T). 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

Butler-Roberts, J., 2017. Fashioning distinction: construction of identity through dress and photography in nineteenth-century Paris (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Simon, J., 2016. French Lessons. New York Times BR22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Somorjai, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Huard and Karlsson, 2000; Somorjai, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Huard and Karlsson, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Khodri et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Field Crops Research
Abbreviation	Field Crops Res.
ISSN (print)	0378-4290
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Soil Science