How to format your references using the VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for VITIS - Journal of Grapevine 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

Baker, M., 2010: Structural Biology: Crystal-Clear Images. Nature 465, 824–825.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reynolds, J.D., Freckleton, R.P., 2005: Ecology. Population Dynamics: Growing to Extremes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309, 567–568.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sale, J.E., Patel, K.J., Batista, F.D., 2013: Retrospective. Michael Neuberger (1953-2013). Science (New York, N.Y.) 342, 1335.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sikes, H.D., Smalley, J.F., Dudek, S.P., Cook, A.R., Newton, M.D., Chidsey, C.E., Feldberg, S.W., 2001: Rapid Electron Tunneling through Oligophenylenevinylene Bridges. Science (New York, N.Y.) 291, 1519–1523.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camman, C., Fiore, C., Livolsi, L., Querro, P., 2017: Supply Chain Management and Business Performance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cuenca, P., Orozco-Barbosa, L. (Eds.), 2006: Personal Wireless Communications: IFIP TC6 11th International Conference, PWC 2006, Albacete, Spain, September 20-22, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Acha, E.M., Piola, A., Iribarne, O., Mianzan, H., 2015: Management and Conservation of Marine Life. In: Piola, A., Iribarne, O., Mianzan, H. (Eds). Ecological Processes at Marine Fronts: Oases in the Ocean. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 33–39.

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 VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016: Hallucinogenic Amazonian Medicine Stimulates Generation Of New Brain Cells [WWW Document]. IFLScience, URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/hallucinogenic-amazonian-medicine-stimulates-generation-of-new-brain-cells/ (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, 1993: NASA Aeronautics: Protecting Sensitive Technology (No. NSIAD-93-201). 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

Nuñez, E.M., 2017: Getting H.I.P. with First-Generation College Students: Decolonizing the High Impact Practice Movement (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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017: Film Series. New York Times C21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Reynolds and Freckleton, 2005; Baker, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Reynolds and Freckleton, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Sikes et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
ISSN (online)	2367-4156
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