How to format your references using the Scientia Horticulturae citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scientia Horticulturae. 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

Aguzzi, A., 2005. Cell biology. Prion toxicity: all sail and no anchor. Science 308, 1420–1421.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson, R.T., Lovley, D.R., 2000. Hexadecane decay by methanogenesis. Nature 404, 722–723.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khudiyev, T., Dogan, T., Bayindir, M., 2014. Biomimicry of multifunctional nanostructures in the neck feathers of mallard (Anas platyrhynchos L.) drakes. Sci. Rep. 4, 4718.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ottesen, E.A., Hong, J.W., Quake, S.R., Leadbetter, J.R., 2006. Microfluidic digital PCR enables multigene analysis of individual environmental bacteria. Science 314, 1464–1467.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chaudhry, A., Coetsee, D., Bakker, E., Varughese, S., McIlwaine, S., Fuller, C., Rands, E., de Vos, N., Longmore, S., Balasubramanian, T.V., 2014. 2015 Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Andrews, N., Khalema, N.E., Assié-Lumumba, N.T. (Eds.), 2015. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect: Africa’s Development Beyond 2015, Social Indicators Research Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Anne, K.R., Kuchibhotla, S., Vankayalapati, H.D., 2015. Emotional Speech Corpora, in: Kuchibhotla, S., Vankayalapati, H.D. (Eds.), Acoustic Modeling for Emotion Recognition, SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 33–35.

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 Scientia Horticulturae.

Blog post

Andrew, D., 2016. Why Pluto May Have A Large Ocean Beneath Its Icy Surface [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-pluto-may-have-a-large-ocean-beneath-its-icy-surface/ (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, 2007. Rail Safety: The Federal Railroad Administration Is Better Targeting Its Oversight, but Needs to Assess the Impact of Its Efforts (No. GAO-07-390T). 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

Nesbit, P.R., 2014. Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles and Structure from Motion: A fresh approach to photogrammetry (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Gordon, M.R., Kakol, K., 2017. Turkish Warplanes Target Kurdish Fighters Allied With U.S. in Iraq and Syria. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aguzzi, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Aguzzi, 2005; Anderson and Lovley, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Anderson and Lovley, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Ottesen et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Scientia Horticulturae
Abbreviation	Sci. Hortic. (Amsterdam)
ISSN (print)	0304-4238
Scope	Horticulture