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

Van Duyne, R.P. 2004. Physics. Molecular plasmonics. Science 306(5698): 985–986.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reznick, D.N., and R.E. Ricklefs. 2009. Darwin’s bridge between microevolution and macroevolution. Nature 457(7231): 837–842.

A journal article with 3 authors

Raebiger, H., S. Lany, and A. Zunger. 2008. Charge self-regulation upon changing the oxidation state of transition metals in insulators. Nature 453(7196): 763–766.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Wei, Q., E. McLeod, H. Qi, Z. Wan, R. Sun, et al. 2013. On-chip cytometry using plasmonic nanoparticle enhanced lensfree holography. Sci. Rep. 3: 1699.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minoli, D. 2005. Nanotechnology Applications to Telecommunications and Networking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gavrilova, M.L., and C.J.K. Tan, editors. 2011. Transactions on Computational Science XIII. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ku, H.-H. 2013. Exploring Consumers’ Responses to Delayed Introduction of a New Mobile Phone. In: Rau, P.L.P., editor, Cross-Cultural Design. Cultural Differences in Everyday Life: 5th International Conference, CCD 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. p. 37–43

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

Andrew, E. 2015. Sperm From Stressed Fathers Alters Genes In The Brains Of Offspring. IFLScience.

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. 1994. Advance Sheets: Volume 73, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States. 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

Kopaygorodsky, E. 2001. Mathematical Model of Ultra-Rapid PSA.

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

Brantley, B. 2017. A Storyteller’s Private Dystopias. New York Times: C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Van Duyne, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Van Duyne, 2004; Reznick and Ricklefs, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Reznick and Ricklefs, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Wei et al., 2013)

About the journal

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