How to format your references using the Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution citation style

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

Wegner DM (2009) How to think, say, or do precisely the worst thing for any occasion. Science 325:48–50

A journal article with 2 authors

Jung GY, Stephanopoulos G (2004) A functional protein chip for pathway optimization and in vitro metabolic engineering. Science 304:428–431

A journal article with 3 authors

Yonezawa H, Aoki T, Furusawa A (2004) Demonstration of a quantum teleportation network for continuous variables. Nature 431:430–433

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Miller MM, Melbourne T, Johnson DJ, Sumner WQ (2002) Periodic slow earthquakes from the Cascadia subduction zone. Science 295:2423

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alberty RA (2011) Enzyme Kinetics: Rapid-Equilibrium Enzyme Kinetics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Inversini A, Schegg R (eds) (2016) Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2016: Proceedings of the International Conference in Bilbao, Spain, February 2-5, 2016, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Lee YK, Knežević M, Verbauwhede IMR (2010) Hardware design for Hash functions. In: Verbauwhede IMR (ed) Secure Integrated Circuits and Systems. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 79–104

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 Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Stressed? Neurons Decide Whether You Cope or Become Depressed. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/stressed-neurons-decide-whether-you-cope-or-become-depressed/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1990) Federal Communications Commission: Strategic Focus Needed to Improve Information Resources Management. 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

Gardner RD (2010) A time course analysis of stem cell activity following brain injury in food-storing black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Branch J (2016) Ready to Jump In If Needed (Not Likely). New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wegner 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Jung and Stephanopoulos 2004; Wegner 2009).

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

Two authors: (Jung and Stephanopoulos 2004)
Three or more authors: (Miller et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution
Abbreviation	Genet. Resour. Crop Evol.
ISSN (print)	0925-9864
ISSN (online)	1573-5109
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Plant Science Genetics