How to format your references using the Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems. 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

Macilwain C (2001) Science in a changed world. Nature 414:836–837

A journal article with 2 authors

Shchukin D, Möhwald H (2013) Materials science. A coat of many functions. Science 341:1458–1459

A journal article with 3 authors

Maurer SM, Hugenholtz PB, Onsrud HJ (2001) Intellectual property. Europe’s database experiment. Science 294:789–790

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Möller J, Lühmann T, Chabria M, et al (2013) Macrophages lift off surface-bound bacteria using a filopodium-lamellipodium hook-and-shovel mechanism. Sci Rep 3:2884

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Drake PP, Fabozzi FJ (2009) Foundations and Applications of the Time Value of Money. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Filipe J, Cordeiro J, Cardoso J (eds) (2008) Enterprise Information Systems: 9th International Conference, ICEIS 2007, Funchal, Madeira, June 12-16, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Havlena M, Heller J, Kayser H, et al (2012) Incongruence Detection in Audio-Visual Processing. In: Weinshall D, Anemüller J, Gool L van (eds) Detection and Identification of Rare Audiovisual Cues. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 67–75

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 Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Rosetta’s Final Dive In Two Weeks Will Unlock Comet 67P’s Last Secrets. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/rosettas-final-dive-in-two-weeks-will-unlock-comet-67ps-last-secrets/. 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 (1987) Space Funding: NASA’s Appropriations and DOD’s Funding Estimates for Space Programs. 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

Belflower KE (2012) The relationship between demographic and employment variables of job satisfaction among emergency nurses. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Hodara S (2013) Where Art Is in the Air, and in the Ground. New York Times WE9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain 2001; Shchukin and Möhwald 2013).

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

Two authors: (Shchukin and Möhwald 2013)
Three or more authors: (Möller et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
Abbreviation	Nutr. Cycling Agroecosyst.
ISSN (print)	1385-1314
ISSN (online)	1573-0867
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Soil Science General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science