How to format your references using the Journal of Oil Palm Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Oil Palm Research (JOPR). 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

Marx, J (2000). ALZHEIMER’S CONGRESS: Drug Shows Promise for Advanced Disease. Science, 289(5478): 375b–377b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lea, A M and Ryan, M J (2015). SEXUAL SELECTION. Irrationality in mate choice revealed by túngara frogs. Science, 349(6251): 964–966.

A journal article with 3 authors

Munsky, B; Neuert, G and van Oudenaarden, A (2012). Using gene expression noise to understand gene regulation. Science, 336(6078): 183–187.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

De Schrijver, A; Verheyen, K; Mertens, J; Staelens, J; Wuyts, K and Muys, B (2008). Nitrogen saturation and net ecosystem production. Nature, 451(7180): E1; discussion E3-4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grose, M (2016). Construction Law in the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Zhang, Y (2015). Zhang Functions and Various Models Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Rayner, M; Armando, A; Bouillon, P; Ebling, S; Gerlach, J; Halimi, S; Strasly, I and Tsourakis, N (2016). Helping Domain Experts Build Phrasal Speech Translation Systems. In Future and Emergent Trends in Language Technology: First International Workshop, FETLT 2015, Seville, Spain, November 19-20, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, J F Quesada, F-J Martín Mateos, and T Lopez-Soto, eds. Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 41–52.

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 Journal of Oil Palm Research.

Blog post

Andrews, R (2016). China Plans To Build 20 Floating Nuclear Power Plants In The South China Sea. IFLScience. accessed on October 30, 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 (2016). Special Education: State and Local-Imposed Requirements Complicate Federal Efforts to Reduce Administrative Burden.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Crane, C C (2017). A Qualitative Study on the Preferred Working Environment of Southern California Secondary Teachers with Experience in Both a District Traditional School and a District Charter School. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine 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

Saslow, L (2006). 13 Hospitals to Remove Trans Fats From Meals. New York Times, 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marx, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lea and Ryan, 2015; Marx, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Lea and Ryan, 2015)
Three or more authors: (De Schrijver et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Oil Palm Research
ISSN (print)	1511-2780
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