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

Baldauf SL (2003) The deep roots of eukaryotes. Science 300:1703–1706

A journal article with 2 authors

Fraser P, Bickmore W (2007) Nuclear organization of the genome and the potential for gene regulation. Nature 447:413–417

A journal article with 3 authors

Tilman D, Reich PB, Knops JMH (2006) Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment. Nature 441:629–632

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sinninghe Damsté JS, Strous M, Rijpstra WIC, et al (2002) Linearly concatenated cyclobutane lipids form a dense bacterial membrane. Nature 419:708–712

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Noyer J-M (2016) Transformation of Collective Intelligences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bas P (2016) Watermarking Security. Springer, Singapore

A chapter in an edited book

Yu Z, Ruan J (2012) Early Childhood English Education in China. In: Ruan J, Leung CB (eds) Perspectives on Teaching and Learning English Literacy in China. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 51–65

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) The Brain Mechanism Underlying Free Will Has Been Identified. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-mechanism-underlying-free-will-has-been-identified/. 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 (2009) Telecommunications: FCC Needs to Improve Oversight of Wireless Phone Service. 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

Mitchell VM (2014) A phenomenological study factors African American female college students face participating in engineering STEM majors. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Kelly SR (2013) A Bend in the River. New York Times A35

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baldauf 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Baldauf 2003; Fraser and Bickmore 2007).

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

Two authors: (Fraser and Bickmore 2007)
Three or more authors: (Sinninghe Damsté et al. 2002)

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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