How to format your references using the Organic Agriculture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Organic 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

Cruz M (2012) Black holes. Inescapable pull. Introduction. Science 337:535

A journal article with 2 authors

Meldrum FC, Sear RP (2008) Materials science. Now you see them. Science 322:1802–1803

A journal article with 3 authors

West GB, Brown JH, Enquist BJ (2001) A general model for ontogenetic growth. Nature 413:628–631

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang S, Dong H, Hou W, et al (2014) Greater temporal changes of sediment microbial community than its waterborne counterpart in Tengchong hot springs, Yunnan Province, China. Sci Rep 4:7479

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prud’Homme R (2013) Flows and Chemical Reactions in Homogeneous Mixtures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Watts RA, Scott DGI (eds) (2010) Vasculitis in Clinical Practice. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Wheatly MG, Gao Y, Gillen CM (2010) Epithelial Calcium Transport in Crustaceans: Adaptation to Intrinsic and Extrinsic Stressors. In: Gerencser GA (ed) Epithelial Transport Physiology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 73–90

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 Organic Agriculture.

Blog post

Taub B (2015) Why You Shouldn’t Rake Your Leaves This Fall. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/here-s-why-you-shouldn-t-rake-your-leaves-fall-0/. 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 (1995) International Broadcasting: Downsizing and Relocating Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. 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

Buckowski M (2009) A Wave of Navy Blue Churning. 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

Sisario B (2016) Head of Columbia Records Promoted to Lead Sony Music. New York Times B2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cruz 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Meldrum and Sear 2008; Cruz 2012).

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

Two authors: (Meldrum and Sear 2008)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Organic Agriculture
ISSN (print)	1879-4238
ISSN (online)	1879-4246
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences