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:

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

Clutton-Brock T (2002) Breeding together: kin selection and mutualism in cooperative vertebrates. Science 296:69–72

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuwayama H, Ishida S (2013) Biological soliton in multicellular movement. Sci Rep 3:2272

A journal article with 3 authors

Nestle FO, Speidel H, Speidel MO (2002) Metallurgy: high nickel release from 1- and 2-euro coins. Nature 419:132

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chiu Y-L, Soros VB, Kreisberg JF, et al (2005) Cellular APOBEC3G restricts HIV-1 infection in resting CD4+ T cells. Nature 435:108–114

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vignes A (2013) Extractive Metallurgy 3. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Klein S, Poulymenakou A (eds) (2006) Managing Dynamic Networks: Organizational Perspectives of Technology Enabled Inter-firm Collaboration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Duncan JG, Finck BN (2012) PPAR/PGC-1 Regulation of Metabolism in Cardiac Disease. In: Patterson C, Willis MS (eds) Translational Cardiology: Molecular Basis of Cardiac Metabolism, Cardiac Remodeling, Translational Therapies and Imaging Techniques. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 83–111

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

Taub B (2016) Large Human Brains May Have Evolved In Order To Judge Others. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/large-human-brains-evolved-order-judge-others/. 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 (1995) Financing College Facilities: Factors Limit Connie Lee’s Ability to Help More Schools. 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

Voma SK (2017) Design of Power Management Circuit for Energy Harvesting Applications. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Pilon M (2012) ’04 Drug Retest May Give U.S. Olympic Gold. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clutton-Brock 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Clutton-Brock 2002; Kuwayama and Ishida 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kuwayama and Ishida 2013)
Three or more authors: (Chiu et al. 2005)

About the journal

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