How to format your references using the NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences. 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

Buckingham, S., 2003. Bioinformatics: programmed for success. Nature 425, 209–215.

A journal article with 2 authors

Payne, J.L., Wagner, A., 2014. The robustness and evolvability of transcription factor binding sites. Science 343, 875–877.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arakawa, H., Hauschild, J., Buerstedde, J.-M., 2002. Requirement of the activation-induced deaminase (AID) gene for immunoglobulin gene conversion. Science 295, 1301–1306.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schaal, B., Coureaud, G., Langlois, D., Giniès, C., Sémon, E., Perrier, G., 2003. Chemical and behavioural characterization of the rabbit mammary pheromone. Nature 424, 68–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barron, R.F., Barron, B.R., 2011. Design for Thermal Stresses. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Marsden, J.E., Ratiu, T.S. (Eds.), 2005. The Breadth of Symplectic and Poisson Geometry: Festschrift in Honor of Alan Weinstein, Progress in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Ćirković Veličković, T., Gavrović-Jankulović, M., 2014. Food Allergens Digestibility, in: Gavrović-Jankulović, M. (Ed.), Food Allergens: Biochemistry and Molecular Nutrition. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 95–140.

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 NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Our Ideas Of How Blood Forms Have Just Been Turned On Their Head [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/our-ideas-how-blood-forms-have-just-been-turned-their-head/ (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, 2011. Information Technology: Continued Attention Needed to Accurately Report Federal Spending and Improve Management (No. GAO-11-831T). 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

Mills, A.D., 2016. Strategic school solutions: A capacity building framework for leaders accelerating 21st century teaching and learning (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Hubbard, B., 2016. Assad’s Lesson From Aleppo: Force Works. 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 (Buckingham, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Buckingham, 2003; Payne and Wagner, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Payne and Wagner, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Schaal et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences
Abbreviation	NJAS Wageningen J. Life Sci.
ISSN (print)	1573-5214
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Animal Science and Zoology Food Science Plant Science Development