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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Attaran A. Where did it all go wrong? Nature. 2004 Aug 19;430(7002):932–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aldecoa R, Marín I. Exploring the limits of community detection strategies in complex networks. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2216.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chou SY, Keimel C, Gu J. Ultrafast and direct imprint of nanostructures in silicon. Nature. 2002 Jun 20;417(6891):835–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Busino L, Bassermann F, Maiolica A, Lee C, Nolan PM, Godinho SIH, et al. SCFFbxl3 controls the oscillation of the circadian clock by directing the degradation of cryptochrome proteins. Science. 2007 May 11;316(5826):900–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mamishev A, Williams S. Technical Writing for Teams. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Frolov IE. The Arctic Basin: Results from the Russian Drifting Stations. Gudkovich ZM, Radionov VF, Shirochkov AV, Timokhov LA, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. (Springer Praxis Books).

A chapter in an edited book

O’Hara P. Minkowski Space and Quantum Mechanics. In: Petkov V, editor. Space, Time, and Spacetime: Physical and Philosophical Implications of Minkowski’s Unification of Space and Time. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 107–27.

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

Andrew E. Poor Semen Quality May Be A Warning Sign Of Other Health Issues [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/poor-semen-quality-may-be-warning-sign-other-health-issues/

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. Federal Student Loans: Oversight of Defaulted Loan Rehabilitation Needs Strengthening. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Mar. Report No.: GAO-14-426T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ladendorff MZ. The effect of North American Electric Reliability Corporation critical infrastructure protection standards on bulk electric system reliability [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2014.

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

Vecsey G. U.S. Grateful to Be Part Of a Sport’s Growth. New York Times. 2011 Aug 13;D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Attaran 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Attaran 2004; Aldecoa and Marín 2013).

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

Two authors: (Aldecoa and Marín 2013)
Three or more authors: (Busino et al. 2007)

About the journal

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