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

Guessoum, N., 2013. Astrophysics: Time for an Arab astronomy renaissance. Nature 498, 161–164.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sloan, P.A., Palmer, R.E., 2005. Two-electron dissociation of single molecules by atomic manipulation at room temperature. Nature 434, 367–371.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, W.K.W., Harrison, W.G., Head, E.J.H., 2006. Coherent sign switching in multiyear trends of microbial plankton. Science 311, 1157–1160.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mark, D.F., Parnell, J., Kelley, S.P., Lee, M., Sherlock, S.C., Carr, A., 2005. Dating of multistage fluid flow in sandstones. Science 309, 2048–2051.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Straus, S.E., Sackett, D.L., 2013. Mentorship in Academic Medicine. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

van Zyl, L.E., Stander, M.W., Odendaal, A. (Eds.), 2016. Coaching Psychology: Meta-theoretical perspectives and applications in multicultural contexts. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Beeldens, A., Cassar, L., Murata, Y., 2011. Applications of TiO2 Photocatalysis for Air Purification, in: Ohama, Y., Van Gemert, D. (Eds.), Applications of Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysis to Construction Materials: State-of-the-Art Report of the RILEM Technical Committee 194-TDP. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 23–35.

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

Hamilton, K., 2016. What Is Spice And Why Is The Drug So Dangerous? [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, 1986. A Profile of Selected Firms Awarded Small Business Innovation Research Funds (No. RCED-86-113FS). 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

Fahmy, C., 2012. Intoxicated by music: A content analysis of the prevalence of alcohol, illicit substances, and tobacco in popular music from 2000 to 2011 (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Hollander, S., 2000. Bryan Twins End Run of Opening-Round Losses. New York Times D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guessoum, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Guessoum, 2013; Sloan and Palmer, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Sloan and Palmer, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Mark et al., 2005)

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