How to format your references using the Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. 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

Kilpatrick AM. 2011. Globalization, land use, and the invasion of West Nile virus. Science. 334(6054):323–327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Medzhitov R, Littman D. 2008. HIV immunology needs a new direction. Nature. 455(7213):591.

A journal article with 3 authors

Uraguchi D, Ueki Y, Ooi T. 2009. Chiral organic ion pair catalysts assembled through a hydrogen-bonding network. Science. 326(5949):120–123.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Moellering RE, Cornejo M, Davis TN, Del Bianco C, Aster JC, Blacklow SC, Kung AL, Gilliland DG, Verdine GL, Bradner JE. 2009. Direct inhibition of the NOTCH transcription factor complex. Nature. 462(7270):182–188.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gladon RJ, Graves WR, Kelly JM. 2011. Getting Published in the Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Seckbach J, Oren A, Stan-Lotter H (eds). 2013. Polyextremophiles: Life Under Multiple Forms of Stress. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Roger M. 2013. Broadband Noise from Lifting Surfaces Analytical Modeling and Experimental Validation, p 289–344. In: Camussi R (ed). Noise Sources in Turbulent Shear Flows: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer, Vienna.

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 the American Society for Horticultural Science.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. Parents Are Freaking Out Because They Can’t Answer A 7-Year-Old Kid’s Exam Question. IFLScience. [accessed 30 Oct 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. 1985. [Query Concerning Legality of Transfer of Japan-United States Friendship Commission Funds]. 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

Fischer BC. 2017. Toward Understanding Resonant Volcanic Seismic Signals: Modelling Bubbly Flow in Magma (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Schmidt MS. 2017. Mueller Inquiry Seeks Documents On Trump Firings. 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 (Kilpatrick 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Medzhitov and Littman 2008; Kilpatrick 2011).

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

Two authors: (Medzhitov and Littman 2008)
Three or more authors: (Moellering et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science
ISSN (print)	0003-1062
ISSN (online)	2327-9788
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