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

Hillery, M., 2010. Physics. Quantum walks through a waveguide maze. Science 329, 1477–1478.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin, T., Ruf, I., 2009. Paleontology. On the mammalian ear. Science 326, 243–244.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wolfe, C.J., Okubo, P.G., Shearer, P.M., 2003. Mantle fault zone beneath Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii. Science 300, 478–480.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Marscher, A.P., Jorstad, S.G., Gómez, J.-L., Aller, M.F., Teräsranta, H., Lister, M.L., Stirling, A.M., 2002. Observational evidence for the accretion-disk origin for a radio jet in an active galaxy. Nature 417, 625–627.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simonović, S.P., 2010. Systems Approach to Management of Disasters. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Filipe, J., Cordeiro, J. (Eds.), 2012. Web Information Systems and Technologies: 7th International Conference, WEBIST 2011, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, May 6-9, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Rosendorff, C., 2006. Vascular Function, in: Rosendorff, C. (Ed.), Essential Cardiology: Principles and Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 55–76.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. You Can Now Vote On What NASA Takes Images Of Next On Jupiter [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/you-can-now-vote-on-what-nasa-takes-images-of-next-on-jupiter/ (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, 2001. Serving the Congress and the Nation: Information Technology Information (No. GAO-01-413SP). 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

Dinneny, P.N., 2017. End of August (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2008. JUSTICES, RULING 5-4, ENDORSE PERSONAL RIGHT TO OWN GUN. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hillery, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Hillery, 2010; Martin and Ruf, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Martin and Ruf, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Marscher et al., 2002)

About the journal

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