How to format your references using the HortTechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for HortTechnology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Tylianakis JM. 2009. Ecology. Warming up food webs. Science. 323(5919):1300–1301.

A journal article with 2 authors

Greif DM, Eichmann A. 2014. Vascular biology: Brain vessels squeezed to death. Nature. 508(7494):50–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ezawa M, Tanaka Y, Nagaosa N. 2013. Topological phase transition without gap closing. Sci Rep. 3:2790.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wible JR, Rougier GW, Novacek MJ, Asher RJ. 2007. Cretaceous eutherians and Laurasian origin for placental mammals near the K/T boundary. Nature. 447(7147):1003–1006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leibowitz ML, Bova A, Hammond PB. 2010. The Endowment Model of Investing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Loue S (ed). 2008. Health Issues Confronting Minority Men Who Have Sex with Men. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Fong J, Mok WY, Li H. 2011. Design Non-recursive and Redundant-Free XML Conceptual Schema with Hypergraph (Extended Abstract), p 40–52. In: Xu J, Yu G, Zhou S, Unland R (eds). Database Systems for Adanced Applications: 16th International Conference, DASFAA 2011, International Workshops: GDB, SIM3, FlashDB, SNSMW, DaMEN, DQIS, Hong Kong, China, April 22-25, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 HortTechnology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2017. A March For Science Will Take Place Around The World On April 22. Here’s How To Get Involved. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-march-for-science-will-take-place-around-the-world-on-april-22-heres-how-to-get-inolved/. [accessed 30 Oct 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. 2010. Contracting Strategies: Better Data and Management Needed to Leverage Value of Interagency and Enterprisewide Contracts. 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

Munz JA. 2017. Assessing the Value of Educational Competencies of Healthcare Leaders and Organizational Factors: A Case Study Analysis (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, 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

Firer S. 2017. Repetition Works for the Moon. New York Times. MM15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tylianakis 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Tylianakis 2009; Greif and Eichmann 2014).

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

Two authors: (Greif and Eichmann 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wible et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	HortTechnology
ISSN (print)	1063-0198
ISSN (online)	1943-7714
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