How to format your references using the Organic Agriculture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Organic Agriculture. 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

Check E (2002) Fresh analyses put rice genomics on the map. Nature 420:259

A journal article with 2 authors

Baell J, Walters MA (2014) Chemistry: Chemical con artists foil drug discovery. Nature 513:481–483

A journal article with 3 authors

Childs AM, Gosset D, Webb Z (2013) Universal computation by multiparticle quantum walk. Science 339:791–794

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kodaira S, Iidaka T, Kato A, et al (2004) High pore fluid pressure may cause silent slip in the Nankai Trough. Science 304:1295–1298

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goossens F (2015) How to Implement Market Models Using VBA. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Maji P, Ghosh A, Murty MN, et al (eds) (2013) Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence: 5th International Conference, PReMI 2013, Kolkata, India, December 10-14, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gradusova O, Nesterina E (2009) The Current Status of Forensic Soil Examination in the Russian Federation. In: Ritz K, Dawson L, Miller D (eds) Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 61–73

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 Organic Agriculture.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Pod Of Orcas Caught With An Enormous Eyeball. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pod-orcas-caught-giant-eyeball/. 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 (1995) Weather Service Modernization: Despite Progress, Significant Problems and Risks Remain. 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

Pobat M (2012) It is all in the Mind of the Manager—Using Cognitive Complexity to Explore the Global Mindset—A Comparative Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Goldberg S (2017) The town where mercury still rises. New York Times 0

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Check 2002; Baell and Walters 2014).

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

Two authors: (Baell and Walters 2014)
Three or more authors: (Kodaira et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Organic Agriculture
ISSN (print)	1879-4238
ISSN (online)	1879-4246
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences