How to format your references using the Journal of Oil Palm Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Oil Palm Research (JOPR). 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

Curchoe, C L (2015). The power of mentoring. Science, 350(6259): 478.

A journal article with 2 authors

Derynck, R and Zhang, Y E (2003). Smad-dependent and Smad-independent pathways in TGF-beta family signalling. Nature, 425(6958): 577–584.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gutiérrez, N L; Hilborn, R and Defeo, O (2011). Leadership, social capital and incentives promote successful fisheries. Nature, 470(7334): 386–389.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gómez Cano, A R; Cantalapiedra, J L; Álvarez-Sierra, M Á and Hernández Fernández, M (2014). A macroecological glance at the structure of late Miocene rodent assemblages from Southwest Europe. Sci. Rep., 4: 6557.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cobb, A H and Reade, J P H (2010). Herbicides and Plant Physiology Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Kandampully, J, ed. (2012). Service Management: The New Paradigm in Retailing Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Gregorcyk, S G (2006). Fecal Incontinence. In Vaginal Surgery for Incontinence and Prolapse, P E Zimmern, P A Norton, F Haab, and C C R Chapple, eds. Springer, London, p. 55–63.

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 Oil Palm Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E (2014). Common Painkillers Could Decrease Skin Cancer Risk. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/common-painkillers-could-decrease-skin-cancer-risk/, accessed on October 30, 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 (1993). Direct Student Loans: The Department of Education’s Implementation of Direct Lending.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lin, L-M (2010). Transformation in Chinese Theatre Works’ the Legend of White Snake. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park.

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, M (1992). Perot Under Fire: Sifting Facts and Motives. 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 (Curchoe, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Curchoe, 2015; Derynck and Zhang, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Derynck and Zhang, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Gómez Cano et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Oil Palm Research
ISSN (print)	1511-2780
Scope