How to format your references using the Euphytica citation style

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

Sánchez-Lavega A (2005) How long is the day on Saturn? Science 307:1223–1224

A journal article with 2 authors

Li N, DiCarlo JJ (2008) Unsupervised natural experience rapidly alters invariant object representation in visual cortex. Science 321:1502–1507

A journal article with 3 authors

Lavrentovich OD, Lazo I, Pishnyak OP (2010) Nonlinear electrophoresis of dielectric and metal spheres in a nematic liquid crystal. Nature 467:947–950

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim Y-S, Cho Y-G, Odkhuu D, et al (2013) A physical organogel electrolyte: characterized by in situ thermo-irreversible gelation and single-ion-predominent conduction. Sci Rep 3:1917

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Larose DT (2005) Data Mining Methods and Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Raś ZW, Wieczorkowska AA (eds) (2010) Advances in Music Information Retrieval. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gwathmey FW, Byrd JWT (2014) Hip Pathology That Can Cause Groin Pain in Athletes: Diagnosis and Management. In: Diduch DR, Brunt LM (eds) Sports Hernia and Athletic Pubalgia: Diagnosis and Treatment. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 31–54

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 Euphytica.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2016) China Completes World’s Largest Radio Telescope – Raising Hopes Of Finding New Worlds And Alien Life. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1987) [Comments on Proposed Oregon Purchase of Rail Line With Oil Overcharge Settlement]. 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

Fisher A-C (2009) Exceptionality and parent -professional conflict: Causes, prevention and resolution. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Walsh MW, Cooper M (2012) Recommendations for State and National Policy Makers. New York Times A3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sánchez-Lavega 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Sánchez-Lavega 2005; Li and DiCarlo 2008).

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

Two authors: (Li and DiCarlo 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Euphytica
Abbreviation	Euphytica
ISSN (print)	0014-2336
ISSN (online)	1573-5060
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Horticulture Plant Science Genetics