How to format your references using the Seed Science Research citation style

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

Osterholm, M. T. (2005) A weapon the world needs. Nature 435, 417–418.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boesz, C. and Lloyd, N. (2008) Collaborations: investigating international misconduct. Nature 452, 686–687.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mollicone, D., Eva, H. D. and Achard, F. (2006) Ecology: human role in Russian wild fires. Nature 440, 436–437.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Siridechadilok, B., Fraser, C. S., Hall, R. J., Doudna, J. A. and Nogales, E. (2005) Structural roles for human translation factor eIF3 in initiation of protein synthesis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310, 1513–1515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Poltorak, A. I. and Lerner, P. J. (2011) Essentials of Intellectual Property. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lenarčič, J. and Khatib, O. eds. (2014) Advances in Robot Kinematics. Cham, Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Saleem, M., Mehmood, Q. and Ngonga Ngomo, A.-C. (2015) FEASIBLE: A Feature-Based SPARQL Benchmark Generation Framework, pp. 52–69 in Arenas, M., Corcho, O., Simperl, E., Strohmaier, M., d’Aquin, M., Srinivas, K., Groth, P., Dumontier, M., Heflin, J., Thirunarayan, K., and Staab, S. (Eds.) The Semantic Web - ISWC 2015: 14th International Semantic Web Conference, Bethlehem, PA, USA, October 11-15, 2015, Proceedings, Part I. Cham, Springer International Publishing.

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 Seed Science Research.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016) IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/sexting-might-actually-be-a-sign-of-a-committed-relationship/ (accessed 30 October 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 (1988) Defaulted Student Loans: Preliminary Analysis of Student Loan Borrowers and Defaulters. HRD-88-112BR. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hung, H.-C. (2006) Allocation of Jobs and Resources to Work Centers.

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

Michael Kelly With (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate’s Record; Detective for Perot Describes Inquiry Into a Rival Business.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Osterholm, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Osterholm, 2005; Boesz and Lloyd, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Boesz and Lloyd, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Siridechadilok et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Seed Science Research
Abbreviation	Seed Sci. Res.
ISSN (print)	0960-2585
ISSN (online)	1475-2735
Scope	Plant Science