How to format your references using the International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture. 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

Brower V (2011) Epigenetics: Unravelling the cancer code. Nature 471:S12-3

A journal article with 2 authors

De Angelis H, Skvarca P (2003) Glacier surge after ice shelf collapse. Science 299:1560–1562

A journal article with 3 authors

Childs AM, Gosset D, Webb Z (2013) Universal computation by multiparticle quantum walk. Science 339:791–794

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Okamoto R, O’Brien JL, Hofmann HF, et al (2009) An entanglement filter. Science 323:483–485

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazer A (2006) Electric Power Planning for Regulated and Deregulated Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ledger S (2014) Global to Local Curriculum Policy Processes: The Enactment of the International Baccalaureate in Remote International Schools. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Tejchman J, Kozicki J (2010) Lattice Discrete Model. In: Kozicki J (ed) Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Steel-Fibrous Concrete. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 181–268

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 International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Beyond Genetics: Illuminating The Epigenome. In: IFLScience. 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 (1976) Cable Television and a Regulatory Policy. 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

Garbarini L (2017) Comparison of the Completion Pathways of Four Categories of Doctoral Students from a Midwestern University. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood 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

St. John Kelly E (1994) The Puck Glides at Night In Amateur Hockey League. New York Times 150

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brower 2011).
This sentence cites two references (De Angelis and Skvarca 2003; Brower 2011).

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

Two authors: (De Angelis and Skvarca 2003)
Three or more authors: (Okamoto et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture
ISSN (print)	2195-3228
ISSN (online)	2251-7715
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