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

Weaire, D., 2013. Applied physics. A fresh start for foam physics. Science 340, 693–694.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coley, P.D., Kursar, T.A., 2014. Ecology. On tropical forests and their pests. Science 343, 35–36.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pereira, H.M., Borda-de-Água, L., Martins, I.S., 2012. Geometry and scale in species-area relationships. Nature 482, E3-4; author reply E5-6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, C., Young, A.L., Starling-Windhof, A., Bracher, A., Saschenbrecker, S., Rao, B.V., Rao, K.V., Berninghausen, O., Mielke, T., Hartl, F.U., Beckmann, R., Hayer-Hartl, M., 2010. Coupled chaperone action in folding and assembly of hexadecameric Rubisco. Nature 463, 197–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fink, J.K., 2016. Metallized and Magnetic Polymers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Boyen, X., Chen, X. (Eds.), 2011. Provable Security: 5th International Conference, ProvSec 2011, Xi’an, China, October 16-18, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Vilfan, M., Olenik, I.D., Cˇopiˇ, M., 2008. Dynamical Processes in Confined Liquid Crystals, in: Torre, R. (Ed.), Time-Resolved Spectroscopy in Complex Liquids: An Experimental Perspective. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 185–216.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Hubble Spots Most Distant Cosmic Magnifying Glass Yet [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-spots-most-distant-cosmic-magnifying-glass-yet/ (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, 2003. National Airspace System: Better Cost Data Could Improve FAA’s Management of the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (No. GAO-03-343). 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

Austin, J.H., 2015. Performing the past: Two pageant traditions in Nauvoo, Illinois (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Yablonsky, L., 2008. The Hebrew School. New York Times M280.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weaire, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Coley and Kursar, 2014; Weaire, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Coley and Kursar, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2010)

About the journal

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