How to format your references using the Pesticides, People and Nature citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pesticides, People and Nature (PPN). 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

Rubin DC. Psychology. How quickly we forget. Science. 2014 Nov 28;346(6213):1058–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

deHaseth PL, Nilsen TW. Molecular biology. When a part is as good as the whole. Science. 2004 Feb 27;303(5662):1307–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mohanan JL, Arachchige IU, Brock SL. Porous semiconductor chalcogenide aerogels. Science. 2005 Jan 21;307(5708):397–400.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zeng H, Li J, Liu JP, Wang ZL, Sun S. Exchange-coupled nanocomposite magnets by nanoparticle self-assembly. Nature. 2002 Nov 28;420(6914):395–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen K. Performance Evaluation by Simulation and Analysis with Applications to Computer Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

Jurdak M. Social and Political Dimensions of Mathematics Education: Current Thinking. Vithal R, de Freitas E, Gates P, Kollosche D, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. VIII, 37 p. (ICME-13 Topical Surveys).

A chapter in an edited book

Fiedler J, Heera V. Superconducting Gallium Implanted Germanium. In: Skorupa W, Schmidt H, editors. Subsecond Annealing of Advanced Materials: Annealing by Lasers, Flash Lamps and Swift Heavy Ions. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 57–78. (Springer Series in Materials Science).

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 Pesticides, People and Nature.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Earth’s Deepest Water May Be 1,000 Kilometers Below The Surface. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earths-deepest-water-may-be-1000-kilometers-below-the-surface/

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. Federal Research: Advanced Technology Program’s Indirect Cost Rates and Program Evaluation Status. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Sep. Report No.: RCED-93-221.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hall KN. Facilitating physically active identity development in older women [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2010.

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

Billard M. The Executive Life; Wall St. Dems Find Little to Like in 1992. New York Times. 1992 Mar 1;333.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1,2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Pesticides, People and Nature
ISSN (print)	1520-9350
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