How to format your references using the Crop Protection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Crop Protection. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Crommie, M.F., 2005. Physics. Manipulating magnetism in a single molecule. Science 309, 1501–1502.

A journal article with 2 authors

Denning, D.W., Bromley, M.J., 2015. Infectious Disease. How to bolster the antifungal pipeline. Science 347, 1414–1416.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baulch, H.M., Stanley, E.H., Bernhardt, E.S., 2011. Can algal uptake stop NO3(-) pollution? Nature 477, E3; discussion E3-4.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mendes, R., Kruijt, M., de Bruijn, I., Dekkers, E., van der Voort, M., Schneider, J.H.M., Piceno, Y.M., DeSantis, T.Z., Andersen, G.L., Bakker, P.A.H.M., Raaijmakers, J.M., 2011. Deciphering the rhizosphere microbiome for disease-suppressive bacteria. Science 332, 1097–1100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartlett, D., Moody, S., Kindersley, K., 2010. Dyslexia in the Workplace. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Knobloch, P. (Ed.), 2015. Boundary and Interior Layers, Computational and Asymptotic Methods - BAIL 2014, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bucher, T., Winter, R., 2010. Taxonomy of Business Process Management Approaches, in: vom Brocke, J., Rosemann, M. (Eds.), Handbook on Business Process Management 2: Strategic Alignment, Governance, People and Culture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 93–114.

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 Crop Protection.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. New Parenting Therapy Could Help Improve Severely Autistic Children’s Communication [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1986. ADP Acquisition: SEC Needs To Resolve Key Issues Before Proceeding With Its EDGAR System (No. IMTEC-87-2). 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

Zhang, X., 2012. Electroweak interactions and the delta resonance in a chiral effective field theory for nuclei (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Barron, J., 2017. M.T.A.’s $1 Million Prizes Are at End of the Tunnel. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crommie, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Crommie, 2005; Denning and Bromley, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Denning and Bromley, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Mendes et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Crop Protection
Abbreviation	Crop Prot.
ISSN (print)	0261-2194
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science