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

Rahmstorf, S., 2007. A semi-empirical approach to projecting future sea-level rise. Science 315, 368–370.

A journal article with 2 authors

Strome, S., Lehmann, R., 2007. Germ versus soma decisions: lessons from flies and worms. Science 316, 392–393.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hadders, M.A., Beringer, D.X., Gros, P., 2007. Structure of C8alpha-MACPF reveals mechanism of membrane attack in complement immune defense. Science 317, 1552–1554.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Akama, T.O., Nakagawa, H., Sugihara, K., Narisawa, S., Ohyama, C., Nishimura, S.-I., O’Brien, D.A., Moremen, K.W., Millan, J.L., Fukuda, M.N., 2002. Germ cell survival through carbohydrate-mediated interaction with Sertoli cells. Science 295, 124–127.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soprano, A., 2015. Liquidity Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Neuhaus, F. (Ed.), 2011. Studies in Temporal Urbanism: The urbanTick Experiment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Refsdal, A., Solhaug, B., Stølen, K., 2015. Cybersecurity, in: Solhaug, B., Stølen, K. (Eds.), Cyber-Risk Management, SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 29–32.

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

Hale, T., 2016. Here’s How To Always Win At Rock, Paper, Scissors [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-to-win-at-rock-paper-scissors/ (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, 1976. Opportunities to Improve Planning for Solar Energy Research and Development (No. EMD-77-8). 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

Julian, A., 2017. Guided Autobiography Themes for Older Adult United States War Veterans (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

Saslow, L., 2006. Long Island Weekend: A 48-Hour Treadmill of Activity -- Saturday. New York Times 14LI12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rahmstorf, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Rahmstorf, 2007; Strome and Lehmann, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Strome and Lehmann, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Akama et al., 2002)

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