How to format your references using the Weed Research citation style

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

Gong P (2012). Cultural history holds back Chinese research. Nature 481, 411.

A journal article with 2 authors

Percec I & Bartolomei MS (2002). Genetics. Do X chromosomes set boundaries? Science (New York, N.Y.) 295, 287–288.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robertson WH, Diken EG & Johnson MA (2003). Chemistry. Snapshots of water at work. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301, 320–321.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rohling EJ, Marsh R, Wells NC, Siddall M & Edwards NR (2004). Similar meltwater contributions to glacial sea level changes from Antarctic and northern ice sheets. Nature 430, 1016–1021.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zonnenshain A & Stauber S (2015). Managing and Engineering Complex Technological Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Fliss DM (2016). Atlas of Surgical Approaches to Paranasal Sinuses and the Skull Base. 1st ed. 2016. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Dulli S, Furini S & Peron E (2009). Metodi di classificazione. In: Data mining: Metodi e strategie. , UNITEXT. (eds S Furini & E Peron), 63–94. Springer, Milano.

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 Weed Research.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2017). How Antarctica Became Frozen. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-antarctica-became-frozen/ (Accessed October 30, 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 (1992). Toward the Moon, Asteroids, and Mars. No. 146025. 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

Robles S (2013). Transient over-voltages generated by solar photovoltaic inverters. 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

St. John Kelly E (1998). A Life Spent In the Past, Of a Fashion. New York Times. 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gong, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Percec & Bartolomei, 2002; Gong, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Percec & Bartolomei, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Rohling et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Weed Research
ISSN (print)	0043-1737
ISSN (online)	1365-3180
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