How to format your references using the Journal of Northeast Agricultural University citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Northeast Agricultural University. 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

Sovacool BK. Diversity: Energy studies need social science. Nature. 2014 Jul 31;511(7511):529–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Franks NR, Richardson T. Teaching in tandem-running ants. Nature. 2006 Jan 12;439(7073):153.

A journal article with 3 authors

Draghici C, Wang T, Spiegel DA. Concise total synthesis of glucosepane. Science. 2015 Oct 16;350(6258):294–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xie H, Wang H, Fu C, Liu Y, Snyder GJ, Zhao X, et al. The intrinsic disorder related alloy scattering in ZrNiSn half-Heusler thermoelectric materials. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov 3;4:6888.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Prager FH, Rosteck H. Polyurethane and Fire. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2006.

An edited book

Hasenauer H, editor. Sustainable Forest Management: Growth Models for Europe. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Hood-Daniel P, Kelly JF. Cutting the Parts I. In: Kelly JF, editor. Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011. p. 35–48.

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 Journal of Northeast Agricultural University.

Blog post

Luntz S. Open Source Science Explores Malaria Drugs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/open-source-science-explores-malaria-drugs/

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. Airport Noise Grants: FAA Needs to Better Ensure Project Eligibility and Improve Strategic Goal and Performance Measures. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Sep. Report No.: GAO-12-890.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ringler I. Values satisfaction and participation in a community leadership program: A case study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2008.

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

Murphy MJO. A Game That Turned Nixon Into a Factoid. New York Times. 2010 Jun 6;WK2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sovacool 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Franks and Richardson 2006; Sovacool 2014).

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

Two authors: (Franks and Richardson 2006)
Three or more authors: (Xie et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Northeast Agricultural University
Abbreviation	J. Northeast Agric. Univ.
ISSN (print)	1006-8104
Scope