How to format your references using the Crop Science citation style

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

Dennis, C. 2003. Genomics: compare and contrast. Nature 426(6968): 750–751.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kawaguchi, S., and D.T.W. Ng. 2011. Cell biology. Sensing ER stress. Science 333(6051): 1830–1831.

A journal article with 3 authors

Salter, M.G., K.A. Franklin, and G.C. Whitelam. 2003. Gating of the rapid shade-avoidance response by the circadian clock in plants. Nature 426(6967): 680–683.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Goldberger, J., R. He, Y. Zhang, S. Lee, H. Yan, et al. 2003. Single-crystal gallium nitride nanotubes. Nature 422(6932): 599–602.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aksamija, A. 2016. Integrating Innovation in Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Pouliot, J., S. Daniel, F. Hubert, and A. Zamyadi, editors. 2013. Progress and New Trends in 3D Geoinformation Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahn, K.Y., T. Sheard, M. Fiore, and A.M. Pitts. 2013. System F i. In: Hasegawa, M., editor, Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications: 11th International Conference, TLCA 2013, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 26-28, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. p. 15–30

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 Science.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2015. Powdered Alcohol Is Now Legal In The USA. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/powdered-alcohol-might-be-coming-summer/ (accessed 30 October 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. 2000. Mass Transit: Challenges in Evaluating, Overseeing, and Funding Major Transit Projects. 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

Kim, H. 2008. Prediction and Elimination of Galling in Forming Galvanized Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS).

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

Rothenberg, B. 2017. An Upstart Relishes, and Rues, a Showcase. New York Times: B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dennis, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Dennis, 2003; Kawaguchi and Ng, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kawaguchi and Ng, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Goldberger et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Crop Science
Abbreviation	Crop Sci.
ISSN (print)	0011-183X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science