How to format your references using the New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Zealand Journal of Agricultural 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

Maxmen A. 2012. The hard facts. Nature. 485(7400):S50-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bergman A, Siegal ML. 2003. Evolutionary capacitance as a general feature of complex gene networks. Nature. 424(6948):549–552.

A journal article with 3 authors

Contreras M, Ceric F, Torrealba F. 2007. Inactivation of the interoceptive insula disrupts drug craving and malaise induced by lithium. Science. 318(5850):655–658.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Perez GI, Trbovich AM, Gosden RG, Tilly JL. 2000. Mitochondria and the death of oocytes. Nature. 403(6769):500–501.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith IM, Griffiths DV, Margetts L. 2015. Programming the Finite Element Method. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bojarski B, Mishchenko AS, Troitsky EV, Weber A, editors. 2006. C*-algebras and Elliptic Theory. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Duckham M, Kulik L, Birtley A. 2006. A Spatiotemporal Model of Strategies and Counter Strategies for Location Privacy Protection. In: Raubal M, Miller HJ, Frank AU, Goodchild MF, editors. Geographic Information Science: 4th International Conference, GIScience 2006, Münster, Germany, September 20-23, 2006 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 47–64.

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 New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research.

Blog post

Davis J. 2017. Republicans Withdraw Plan To Sell Off 3.3 Million Acres Of Public Land After Intense Opposition. IFLScience.

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. 2005. Office of Personnel Management: Retirement Systems Modernization Program Faces Numerous Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rose L. 2012. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: An Exploration From Science to Soul [Doctoral dissertation]. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Rojas R. 2015. A Smelly Visit to the City’s Sewer System Ends With 3 Men Under Arrest. New York Times.:A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Maxmen 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bergman and Siegal 2003; Maxmen 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bergman and Siegal 2003)
Three or more authors: (Perez et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research
ISSN (print)	0028-8233
ISSN (online)	1175-8775
Scope