How to format your references using the Weed Technology citation style

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

Hoshino M (2003) Space physics. Coupling across many scales. Science 299:834–835

A journal article with 2 authors

Eom Y-H, Jo H-H (2014) Generalized friendship paradox in complex networks: the case of scientific collaboration. Sci Rep 4:4603

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuthill PG, Monnier JD, Danchi WC (2001) A dusty torus around the luminous young star LkH alpha101. Nature 409:1012–1014

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xiao H, Murakami H, Suga H, Ferré-D’Amaré AR (2008) Structural basis of specific tRNA aminoacylation by a small in vitro selected ribozyme. Nature 454:358–361

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Packard A (2010) Digital Media Law. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Agosti M, Borbinha J, Kapidakis S, Papatheodorou C, Tsakonas G, eds. (2009) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 13th European Conference, ECDL 2009, Corfu, Greece, September 27 - October 2, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XIX, 497 p p

A chapter in an edited book

Brezillon P (2011) Contextualization of Scientific Workflows. Pages 40–53 in M Beigl, H Christiansen, TR Roth-Berghofer, A Kofod-Petersen, KR Coventry, HR Schmidtke, eds. Modeling and Using Context: 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 26-30, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Technology.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Electronic Skin Can Store Data and Deliver Drugs. IFLScience. 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 (1995) Government Aircraft: Observations on Travel by Senior Officials. NSIAD-95-168BR. 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

Pierre RR (2019) A Phenomenological Study of the Boomerang-Employment Experience of Scientists and Engineers. Doctoral dissertation. Washington, DC: George Washington University

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

Hollander S (2000) Lucky Loser in Qualifying Becomes Tired Winner of the Bronx Classic. New York Times:D10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoshino 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Eom and Jo 2014; Hoshino 2003).

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

Two authors: (Eom and Jo 2014)
Three or more authors: (Xiao et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Weed Technology
Abbreviation	Weed Technol.
ISSN (print)	0890-037X
ISSN (online)	1550-2740
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science