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]

Rothwell N. One more thing. Nature 2004;427:683.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Flatt T, Promislow DEL. Physiology. Still pondering an age-old question. Science 2007;318:1255–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Quoidbach J, Gilbert DT, Wilson TD. The end of history illusion. Science 2013;339:96–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Schultze M, Fiess M, Karpowicz N, Gagnon J, Korbman M, Hofstetter M, et al. Delay in photoemission. Science 2010;328:1658–62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nyce DS. Position Sensors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Grossi E, Pace F, editors. Human Nutrition from the Gastroenterologist’s Perspective: Lessons from Expo Milano 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Colonna S, Folco G, Marangoni F. Vitamine e minerali. In: Folco G, Marangoni F, editors. I cibi della salute: Le basi chimiche di una corretta alimentazione, Milano: Springer; 2013, p. 75–95.

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. What’s Causing This Mysterious Sleeping Sickness In A Village In Kazakhstan? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mystery-village-s-sleeping-sickness-may-have-been-solved/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Core Competencies in Financial Management for Information Technology Personnel Implementing Financial Systems in the Federal Government. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Acosta J. Building bridges: A specialized training program for professionals in school settings to address bullying in LGBTQ youth: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Johnson G. A Subatomic Existential Crisis. New York Times 2015:D5.

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

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