How to format your references using the Journal of Stored Products Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Stored Products 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

Lidin, S., 2014. Imaging techniques. Mapping bond orientations with polarized x-rays. Science 344, 969–970.

A journal article with 2 authors

Veillette, A., Davidson, D., 2014. Immunology: When lymphocytes run out of steam. Nature 510, 222–223.

A journal article with 3 authors

Staver, A.C., Archibald, S., Levin, S.A., 2011. The global extent and determinants of savanna and forest as alternative biome states. Science 334, 230–232.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aoki, W., Saito, M., Manabe, R.-I., Mori, H., Yamaguchi, Y., Tamiya, E., 2014. Integrating reductive and synthetic approaches in biology using man-made cell-like compartments. Sci. Rep. 4, 4722.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Placzek, D., Bielecki, R., Messing, M., Schwarzer, F., Tunnel, 2016. Zielgenau bis ans Ende des Tunnels. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Lennon, T.M., Stainton, R.J. (Eds.), 2008. The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology, Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

El Bouzekri El Idrissi, Y., Ajhoun, R., Idrissi, M.A.J., 2010. Multicriteria-Based Decision for Services Discovery and Selection, in: Tsihrintzis, G.A., Damiani, E., Virvou, M., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (Eds.), Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 41–51.

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 Stored Products Research.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. Largest Turtle Breeding Colony In The Atlantic Discovered [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/largest-turtle-breeding-colony-atlantic-discovered/ (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, 1971. Close Air Support: Principal Issues and Aircraft Choices (No. B-173850). 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

Wang, X., 2017. Inferences on Gamma Distributions: Uncensored and Censored Cases (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by, 2005. Arts, Briefly; Rare Violin in the Spotlight. New York Times E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lidin, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Lidin, 2014; Veillette and Davidson, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Veillette and Davidson, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Aoki et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Stored Products Research
Abbreviation	J. Stored Prod. Res.
ISSN (print)	0022-474X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Horticulture Insect Science