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

Gu L. Comment on “Climate and management contributions to recent trends in U.S. agricultural yields.” Science. 2003 Jun 6;300(5625):1505; author reply 1505.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kummamuru RK, Soh YA. Electrical effects of spin density wave quantization and magnetic domain walls in chromium. Nature. 2008 Apr 17;452(7189):859–63.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prescher JA, Dube DH, Bertozzi CR. Chemical remodelling of cell surfaces in living animals. Nature. 2004 Aug 19;430(7002):873–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nakamura H, Shirakawa Y, Kitamura H, Sato N, Shinji O, Saito K, et al. Mechanism of wavelength conversion in polystyrene doped with benzoxanthene: emergence of a complex. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2502.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vaseghi SV. Advanced Digital Signal Processing and Noise Reduction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Baillieul J, Samad T, editors. Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. London: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Franke A, Parkes M. The Genetics of Crohn’s Disease. In: D’Amato M, Rioux JD, editors. Molecular Genetics of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 99–118.

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 D. What Causes Cramps? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. The Federal Software Exchange Program: A Small Step in Improving Program Sharing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Jan. Report No.: FGMSD-78-11.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hammarsten C. Decorated Heegaard Diagrams and Combinatorial Heegaard Floer Homology [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2015.

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

Rothenberg B. One Injured Player Comes to Another’s Aid, but Now Murray Looms. New York Times. 2017 Jun 1;B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gu 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gu 2003; Kummamuru and Soh 2008).

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

Two authors: (Kummamuru and Soh 2008)
Three or more authors: (Nakamura et al. 2013)

About the journal

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