How to format your references using the Horticulturae citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Horticulturae. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Finney, C. Conservation Economics. Comment on “Using Ecological Thresholds to Evaluate the Costs and Benefits of Set-Asides in a Biodiversity Hotspot.” Science 2015, 347, 731.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pryke, S.R.; Griffith, S.C. Genetic Incompatibility Drives Sex Allocation and Maternal Investment in a Polymorphic Finch. Science 2009, 323, 1605–1607.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kayser, M.S.; Yue, Z.; Sehgal, A. A Critical Period of Sleep for Development of Courtship Circuitry and Behavior in Drosophila. Science 2014, 344, 269–274.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Engel, G.S.; Calhoun, T.R.; Read, E.L.; Ahn, T.-K.; Mancal, T.; Cheng, Y.-C.; Blankenship, R.E.; Fleming, G.R. Evidence for Wavelike Energy Transfer through Quantum Coherence in Photosynthetic Systems. Nature 2007, 446, 782–786.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kobilinsky, L.; Liotti, T.F.; Oeser-Sweat, J. DNA: Forensic and Legal Applications; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2004; ISBN 9780471681915.

An edited book

Paluszek, M. MATLAB Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach; Thomas, S., Ed.; Apress: Berkeley, CA, 2015; ISBN 9781484205600.

A chapter in an edited book

Takeno, M.; Ideguchi, H.; Suda, A.; Kamiyama, R.; Ishigatsubo, Y. Vascular Involvement of Behçet’s Disease. In Behçet’s Disease: From Genetics to Therapies; Ishigatsubo, Y., Ed.; Springer Japan: Tokyo, 2015; pp. 79–100 ISBN 9784431544869.

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 Horticulturae.

Blog post

Andrew, E. How Myths And Tabloids Feed On Anomalies In Science Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-myths-and-tabloids-feed-anomalies-science/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Electronic Disability Claims Processing: SSA Is Proceeding with Its Accelerated Systems Initiative but Needs to Address Operational Issues; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Kemp, L.S. Perspective Processing in Language Comprehension: Embodied Efffects Depend on the Pronoun. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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. A Habeas Corpus Appeal Veers to Capital Issues. New York Times 2007, A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Horticulturae
ISSN (online)	2311-7524
Scope