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

Ensign SA (2011) Microbiology. Another microbial pathway for acetate assimilation. Science 331:294–295

A journal article with 2 authors

Tzeng S-R, Kalodimos CG (2012) Protein activity regulation by conformational entropy. Nature 488:236–240

A journal article with 3 authors

Basch ML, Bronner-Fraser M, García-Castro MI (2006) Specification of the neural crest occurs during gastrulation and requires Pax7. Nature 441:218–222

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bakker A, Kirwan CB, Miller M, Stark CEL (2008) Pattern separation in the human hippocampal CA3 and dentate gyrus. Science 319:1640–1642

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mahlberg R, Gilles A, Läsch A (2004) Hämatologie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Mathur S (ed) (2014) Trade, the WTO and Energy Security: Mapping the Linkages for India. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Sainz MA, Armengol J, Calm R, et al (2014) Interval Arithmetic. In: Armengol J, Calm R, Herrero P, et al. (eds) Modal Interval Analysis: New Tools for Numerical Information. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 121–141

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

Andrews R (2016) No Turning Back As Earth Permanently Passes CO2 Threshold. In: IFLScience. 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 (1978) The Congress Should Clearly Define the National Weather Service’s Role To Provide Specialized Weather Services. 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

McGowan HC (2008) The military experience: Perceptions from senior military officers’ wives. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Wagner J (2017) Mets Fall to Braves, but Help Is Coming as Cespedes Is Set to Return. New York Times D2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ensign 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ensign 2011; Tzeng and Kalodimos 2012).

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

Two authors: (Tzeng and Kalodimos 2012)
Three or more authors: (Bakker et al. 2008)

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