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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Hoffman S (2004) Save the children. Nature 430:940–941

A journal article with 2 authors

Marsan D, Lengliné O (2008) Extending earthquakes’ reach through cascading. Science 319:1076–1079

A journal article with 3 authors

Kalka MB, Smith AR, Kalko EKV (2008) Bats limit arthropods and herbivory in a tropical forest. Science 320:71

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Politi Y, Arad T, Klein E, et al (2004) Sea urchin spine calcite forms via a transient amorphous calcium carbonate phase. Science 306:1161–1164

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Oyama T (2010) Post-Crisis Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809

An edited book

Gelmetti C (ed) (2007) La scuola dell’atopia. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Yu PL, Sadler BM, Verma G, Baras JS (2016) Fingerprinting by Design: Embedding and Authentication. In: Wang C, Gerdes RM, Guan Y, Kasera SK (eds) Digital Fingerprinting. Springer, New York, NY, pp 69–88

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

Luntz S (2014) Craters From Double Asteroid Impact Identified. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/craters-double-asteroid-impact-identified/. 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 (2008) Air Traffic Control: FAA Uses Earned Value Techniques to Help Manage Information Technology Acquisitions, but Needs to Clarify Policy and Strengthen Oversight. 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

Gruhl DK (2010) Santa Rosa Adopt-A-Grandparent Plus program: A grant proposal project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Fiske IH (1907) ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. New York Times SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKSBR233

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoffman 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Hoffman 2004; Marsan and Lengliné 2008).

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

Two authors: (Marsan and Lengliné 2008)
Three or more authors: (Politi et al. 2004)

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