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

McFiggans G (2014) Atmospheric science: Involatile particles from rapid oxidation. Nature 506:442–443

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller TM, Cleveland DW (2005) Medicine. Treating neurodegenerative diseases with antibiotics. Science 307:361–362

A journal article with 3 authors

Lou X, Scheuss V, Schneggenburger R (2005) Allosteric modulation of the presynaptic Ca2+ sensor for vesicle fusion. Nature 435:497–501

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lambe T, Carey JB, Li Y, et al (2013) Immunity against heterosubtypic influenza virus induced by adenovirus and MVA expressing nucleoprotein and matrix protein-1. Sci Rep 3:1443

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (2011) Recognizing Catastrophic Incident Warning Signs in the Process Industries. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lawphongpanich S, Hearn DW, Smith MJ (eds) (2006) Mathematical and Computational Models for Congestion Charging. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Orsini F, Erba PA, Cantini R, et al (2010) Radiofarmaci diagnostici convenzionali. In: Volterrani D, Mariani G, Erba PA (eds) Fondamenti di medicina nucleare: Tecniche e applicazioni. Springer, Milano, pp 41–92

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

O`Callaghan J (2015) Weight Loss Surgery May Alter Gut Microbes To Help Keep Fighting Obesity. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/weight-loss-surgery-may-alter-gut-microbes-help-keep-fighting-obesity/. 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 (2006) Internet Infrastructure: Challenges in Developing a Public/Private Recovery Plan. 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

Greenhall JA (2008) Elucidating mechanisms of accelerated neurological aging. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Gustines GG (2010) Neil Young’s Greendale, Illustrated. 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 (McFiggans 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Miller and Cleveland 2005; McFiggans 2014).

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

Two authors: (Miller and Cleveland 2005)
Three or more authors: (Lambe 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