How to format your references using the Journal of Stored Products Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Stored Products Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Lenski, R.E., 2000. No mercy. Science 290, 936a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jagoutz, O., Behn, M.D., 2013. Foundering of lower island-arc crust as an explanation for the origin of the continental Moho. Nature 504, 131–134.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, S.P., Jones, C., Stasch, A., 2007. Stable magnesium(I) compounds with Mg-Mg bonds. Science 318, 1754–1757.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Imamizu, H., Miyauchi, S., Tamada, T., Sasaki, Y., Takino, R., Pütz, B., Yoshioka, T., Kawato, M., 2000. Human cerebellar activity reflecting an acquired internal model of a new tool. Nature 403, 192–195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coulson, J., 2014. Sustainable Use of Wood in Construction. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Rahwan, I., Moraitis, P. (Eds.), 2009. Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems: Fifth International Workshop, ArgMAS 2008, Estoril, Portugal, May 12, 2008. Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gutierrez, M., Wang, J., 2011. MICROMECHANICAL STUDY OF STRAIN LOCALIZATION AND FAILURE IN THE DIRECT SHEAR TEST OF GRANULAR SOILS, in: Borja, R.I. (Ed.), Multiscale and Multiphysics Processes in Geomechanics: Resultsof the Workshop on Multiscale and Multiphysics Processes in Geomechanics, Stanford, June 23–25, 2010, Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 17–20.

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 Stored Products Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. NSFL: Botfly Removal From 5-Year-Old’s Eye [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nsfl-botfly-removal-5-year-old’s-eye/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1987. Youth Job Training: Problems Measuring Attainment of Employment Competencies (No. HRD-87-33). 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

Janpengpen, A., 2010. Monitoring and forecasting biosolids odors at prior lime and post lime addition in wastewater treatment plants (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Hollander, S., 2009. La Dolce Video. New York Times CY1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lenski, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Jagoutz and Behn, 2013; Lenski, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Jagoutz and Behn, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Imamizu et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Stored Products Research
Abbreviation	J. Stored Prod. Res.
ISSN (print)	0022-474X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Horticulture Insect Science