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

Ainsworth C (2015) Agriculture: A new breed of edits. Nature 528:S15-6

A journal article with 2 authors

Delbarco-Trillo J, Ferkin MH (2004) Male mammals respond to a risk of sperm competition conveyed by odours of conspecific males. Nature 431:446–449

A journal article with 3 authors

Gilbert IR, Jarvis PG, Smith H (2001) Proximity signal and shade avoidance differences between early and late successional trees. Nature 411:792–795

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang H, Westin L, Nong Y, et al (2009) Norbin is an endogenous regulator of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 signaling. Science 326:1554–1557

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alladin A (2015) Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Wagner I (2011) Post-Silicon and Runtime Verification for Modern Processors. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Tzanakis IP, Oreopoulos DG (2013) Magnesium and Kidney Disease. In: Watson RR, Preedy VR, Zibadi S (eds) Magnesium in Human Health and Disease. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 81–101

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

Andrew E (2015) Scientists At Work: Most Days In The Life Of An Astronomer Aren’t Spent At Telescopes. 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 (2009) Meal Counting and Claiming by Food Service Management Companies in the School Meal Programs. 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

Winkelhake B (2015) Verbal argumentativeness: A study of retail store managers. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Goldman A, Tabuchi H, Ewing J (2017) F.B.I. Arrests Volkswagen Executive on Conspiracy Charges in Emissions Cheating Scandal. New York Times A13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ainsworth 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Delbarco-Trillo and Ferkin 2004; Ainsworth 2015).

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

Two authors: (Delbarco-Trillo and Ferkin 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2009)

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