How to format your references using the Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 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

Coppi P (2007) Astronomy. Inside a cosmic train wreck. Science 316:1852–1854

A journal article with 2 authors

Druzd D, Scheiermann C (2013) Immunology. Some monocytes got rhythm. Science 341:1462–1464

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz W, Sanderson W, Scherbov S (2001) The end of world population growth. Nature 412:543–545

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Beattie EC, Stellwagen D, Morishita W, et al (2002) Control of synaptic strength by glial TNFalpha. Science 295:2282–2285

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abid MM (2006) Spacecraft Sensors. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Romberg O (2006) Don’t Panic with Mechanics!: Fun and success in the “loser discipline” of engineering studies! Vieweg, Wiesbaden

A chapter in an edited book

Dobosz P, Cierniak R (2014) Using of EM Algorithm to Image Reconstruction Problem with Tomography Noises. In: S. Choras R (ed) Image Processing and Communications Challenges 5. Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg, pp 37–43

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 Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) Discovery Of Cosmic Web Feeding A Protogalaxy Could Reveal How Galaxies Form. 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 (2001) Tax Systems Modernization: Results of Review of IRS’ Third Expenditure Plan. 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

Kao CH (2012) Community mental health care for Chinese Americans: A grant proposal. 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

Kenigsberg B (2016) The Listings; Film Series. New York Times C28

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coppi 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Coppi 2007; Druzd and Scheiermann 2013).

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

Two authors: (Druzd and Scheiermann 2013)
Three or more authors: (Beattie et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
Abbreviation	Nutr. Cycling Agroecosyst.
ISSN (print)	1385-1314
ISSN (online)	1573-0867
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Soil Science General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science