How to format your references using the International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Lawler A (2000) SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION: NASA Blasted for Rising Costs, Cancellations. Science 290:1666a
A journal article with 2 authors
Messina R, Ben-Abdallah P (2013) Graphene-based photovoltaic cells for near-field thermal energy conversion. Sci Rep 3:1383
A journal article with 3 authors
Lee R, Mason A, members of the NTA Network (2014) Is low fertility really a problem? Population aging, dependency, and consumption. Science 346:229–234
A journal article with 5 or more authors
Zhang X, Liao L, Wang S, et al (2014) Polymerization or cyclic dimerization: solvent dependent homo-coupling of terminal alkynes at HOPG surface. Sci Rep 4:3899

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Geng H (2014) Data Center Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ
An edited book
King RB, Bernardo ABI (eds) (2016) The Psychology of Asian Learners: A Festschrift in Honor of David Watkins, 1st ed. 2016. Springer, Singapore
A chapter in an edited book
Osipov A, Rokhlin V, Xiao H (2013) Analysis of the Integral Operator. In: Rokhlin V, Xiao H (eds) Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions of Order Zero: Mathematical Tools for Bandlimited Approximation. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 135–169

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 International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture.

Blog post
Fang J (2015) What’s Happening To The Flowers At Fukushima? In: IFLScience. 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 (1992) Intercollegiate Athletics: Compensation Varies for Selected Personnel in Athletic Departments. 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
Amanoua KP (2014) Langue et identité dans les milieux populaires québécois et antillais. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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
Hartocollis A (2014) Long Island College Hospital Names Choice for the Future. New York Times A24

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawler 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lawler 2000; Messina and Ben-Abdallah 2013).

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

  • Two authors: (Messina and Ben-Abdallah 2013)
  • Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleInternational Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture
ISSN (print)2195-3228
ISSN (online)2251-7715
Scope

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