How to format your references using the Information Processing in Agriculture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Information Processing in Agriculture. 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

[1]

Kreeger K. At last, a chance for postdocs to learn how to teach. Nature 2002;415:5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Schmiedmayer J, Berges J. Physics. Cold atom cosmology. Science 2013;341:1188–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tuffen H, Smith R, Sammonds PR. Evidence for seismogenic fracture of silicic magma. Nature 2008;453:511–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bamber JL, Riva REM, Vermeersen BLA, LeBrocq AM. Reassessment of the potential sea-level rise from a collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Science 2009;324:901–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Maksoud MA. Quick Reference to Dental Implant Surgery. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Reichow B, Doehring P, Cicchetti DV, Volkmar FR, editors. Evidence-Based Practices and Treatments for Children with Autism. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Suki B, Bartolák-Suki E. Biomechanics of the Aging Lung Parenchyma. In: Derby B, Akhtar R, editors. Mechanical Properties of Aging Soft Tissues, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 95–133.

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 Information Processing in Agriculture.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Sea Slugs Have Crazy Forehead Sex. IFLScience 2013.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Information Technology: FBI Is Taking Steps to Develop an Enterprise Architecture, but Much Remains to Be Accomplished. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mann KM. Evaluation of Transfer Technologies to Preserve Shoulder Function in SCI. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2012.

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

[1]

Jacoby S. Keep the Gates of Paradise Open. New York Times 2013:SR9.

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	Information Processing in Agriculture
Abbreviation	Inf. Process. Agric.
ISSN (print)	2214-3173
Scope