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

Harrison, T., 2010. Anthropology. Apes among the tangled branches of human origins. Science 327, 532–534.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clayton, J., Butler, D., 2004. The long and winding road. Nature 430, 937.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blin, A., Cissé, I., Bockelmann, U., 2014. Electronic hybridization detection in microarray format and DNA genotyping. Sci. Rep. 4, 4194.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jovanovic, K., Gonsalves, D., Da Costa Dias, B., Moodley, K., Reusch, U., Knackmuss, S., Penny, C., Weinberg, M.S., Little, M., Weiss, S.F.T., 2013. Anti-LRP/LR specific antibodies and shRNAs impede amyloid beta shedding in Alzheimer’s disease. Sci. Rep. 3, 2699.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bell, S., 2005. Lean Enterprise Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Greenwood, M., 2008. Nutritional Supplements in Sports and Exercise. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Mahdavi, M., 2009. Solving NP-Complete Problems by Harmony Search, in: Geem, Z.W. (Ed.), Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm: Theory and Applications, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 53–70.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. Supermoon Tide Washes Bemused Octopus Into Miami Parking Garage [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1994. Federal Research: Additional Funds for Terminating the Super Collider Are Not Justified (No. RCED-94-153). 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

Venegas Carro, G.I., 2017. The Slow Movements of Anton Bruckner’s Symphonies: Dialogical Perspectives (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Baker, P., Shear, M.D., 2017. Trump Stirs a New Question: Are There Tapes? 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 (Harrison, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Clayton and Butler, 2004; Harrison, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Clayton and Butler, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Jovanovic et al., 2013)

About the journal

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