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

Aspinall, W., 2011. Check your legal position before advising others. Nature 477, 251.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pimm, S.L., Brown, J.H., 2004. Ecology. Domains of diversity. Science 304, 831–833.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huntington, J.A., Read, R.J., Carrell, R.W., 2000. Structure of a serpin-protease complex shows inhibition by deformation. Nature 407, 923–926.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Smith, O., Clapham, A., Rose, P., Liu, Y., Wang, J., Allaby, R.G., 2014. A complete ancient RNA genome: identification, reconstruction and evolutionary history of archaeological Barley Stripe Mosaic Virus. Sci. Rep. 4, 4003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hübschmann, H.-J., 2015. Handbook of GC-MS. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Merloni, A., Nayakshin, S., Sunyaev, R.A. (Eds.), 2005. Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context: Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference Held at Garching, Germany, 21-25 June 2004, ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Baracca, A., Franconi, R., 2016. Reaching a Critical Mass and Laying the Foundations of an Advanced Scientific System, in: Franconi, R. (Ed.), Subalternity vs. Hegemony, Cuba’s Outstanding Achievements in Science and Biotechnology, 1959-2014, SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 39–53.

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

Luntz, S., 2016. Solar Efficiency Record Smashed [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1978. The Summer Feeding Program for Children: Reforms Begun--Many More Urgently Needed (No. CED-78-90). 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

Lotrecchiano, G.R., 2012. Social Mechanisms of Team Science: A Descriptive Case Study Using a Multilevel Systems Perspective Employing Reciprocating Structuration Theory (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Sisario, B., 2017. WBGO Is Giving Jazz a Higher Profile Online. New York Times C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Aspinall, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Aspinall, 2011; Pimm and Brown, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Pimm and Brown, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Smith et al., 2014)

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

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