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

Schleich, W.P., 2000. Engineering decoherence. Nature 403, 256–257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ide, M., Hidaka, S., 2013. Tactile stimulation can suppress visual perception. Sci. Rep. 3, 3453.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khanna, K.M., McNamara, J.T., Lefrançois, L., 2007. In situ imaging of the endogenous CD8 T cell response to infection. Science 318, 116–120.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sikora, D., Rocheleau, L., Brown, E.G., Pelchat, M., 2014. Deep sequencing reveals the eight facets of the influenza A/HongKong/1/1968 (H3N2) virus cap-snatching process. Sci. Rep. 4, 6181.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simpkins, C.A., Simpkins, A.M., 2011. Zen Meditation in Psychotherapy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zhang, J., Shao, L., Zhang, L., Jones, G.A. (Eds.), 2010. Intelligent Video Event Analysis and Understanding, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, L., Tang, H., 2016. Mode Selection for Cellular D2D Underlay, in: Tang, H. (Ed.), Device-to-Device Communications in Cellular Networks, SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 41–59.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Earth’s Magnetic Field May Be Half A Billion Years Older Than Previously Thought [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/earth-s-magnetic-field-may-be-half-billion-years-older-previously-thought/ (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, 1998. FWS: Migratory Bird Hunting--Late Seasons and Bag Possession Limits for Certain Migratory Game Birds (No. OGC-99-19). 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

Arguello, I.M., 2010. Circle of Sisters summer program: A grant-writing project (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

Vecsey, G., 2010. Yankees Need One Of Those Comebacks. New York Times B17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schleich, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Ide and Hidaka, 2013; Schleich, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Ide and Hidaka, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sikora et al., 2014)

About the journal

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