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

Fortin, D. Geochemistry. What Biogenic Minerals Tell Us. Science 2004, 303, 1618–1619.

A journal article with 2 authors

Riddihough, G.; Zahn, L.M. Epigenetics. What Is Epigenetics? Introduction. Science 2010, 330, 611.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tateishi-Karimata, H.; Nakano, M.; Sugimoto, N. Comparable Stability of Hoogsteen and Watson-Crick Base Pairs in Ionic Liquid Choline Dihydrogen Phosphate. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 3593.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fricker, H.A.; Scambos, T.; Bindschadler, R.; Padman, L. An Active Subglacial Water System in West Antarctica Mapped from Space. Science 2007, 315, 1544–1548.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, M.C.; Sherman, D.M. Goat Medicine; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2009; ISBN 9780813818825.

An edited book

High Performance Computing - HiPC 2004: 11th International Conference, Bangalore, India, December 19-22, 2004. Proceedings; Bougé, L., Prasanna, V.K., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005; Vol. 3296; ISBN 9783540241294.

A chapter in an edited book

Fomin, F.V.; Kratsch, D. Inclusion-Exclusion. In Exact Exponential Algorithms; Kratsch, D., Ed.; Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; pp. 51–75 ISBN 9783642165320.

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

Andrews, R. Why Is Italy Experiencing So Many Earthquakes At The Moment? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-italy-experiencing-so-many-earthquakes/ (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 Improved Reporting Needed on National Aeronautics and Space Administration Projects; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1977;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wall, J.D. The Effects of Acute L-Dopa on Brux-like and Masticatory Motor Patterns: EMG Phase Analysis in Rats. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University: Edwardsville, IL, 2017.

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

Grynbaum, M.M.; Herrman, J. Once an Outlier, Breitbart Rises to Potent Voice. New York Times 2016, A1.

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
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