How to format your references using the Field Crops Research citation style

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

DiBiase, R.A., 2014. Earth science: River incision revisited. Nature 505, 294–295.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chatterjee, S., Callaway, E.M., 2003. Parallel colour-opponent pathways to primary visual cortex. Nature 426, 668–671.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bingenheimer, J.B., Brennan, R.T., Earls, F.J., 2005. Firearm violence exposure and serious violent behavior. Science 308, 1323–1326.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kural, C., Kim, H., Syed, S., Goshima, G., Gelfand, V.I., Selvin, P.R., 2005. Kinesin and dynein move a peroxisome in vivo: a tug-of-war or coordinated movement? Science 308, 1469–1472.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor, B., 2005. Effective Environmental, Health, and Safety Management Using the Team Approach. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Brezzi, F., Colli Franzone, P., Gianazza, U., Gilardi, G. (Eds.), 2013. Analysis and Numerics of Partial Differential Equations, Springer INdAM Series. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

García-García, F., Olivares-Bañuelos, T., Drucker-Colín, R., 2007. Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide and Prolactin Cytokines: Role in Sleep and Some Immune Aspects, in: Pandi-Perumal, S.R., Cardinali, D.P., Chrousos, G.P. (Eds.), Neuroimmunology of Sleep. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 97–117.

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 Field Crops Research.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Human Embryos Grown In Lab For Record Period Of Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-embryos-grown-lab-record-period-time/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1990. Stafford Student Loans: Millions of Dollars in Loans Awarded to Ineligible Borrowers (No. IMTEC-91-7). 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

Domec, B.S., 2017. Development, Characterization, and Resultant Properties of a Carbon, Boron, and Chromium Ternary Diffusion System (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Vecsey, G., 2009. Grandpa Loved Horses, or How a Filly Got Her Name. New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DiBiase, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Chatterjee and Callaway, 2003; DiBiase, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Chatterjee and Callaway, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Kural et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Field Crops Research
Abbreviation	Field Crops Res.
ISSN (print)	0378-4290
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Soil Science