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

Carmody J (2001) Celebrating science. Nature 412:383

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhat SG, Kumar PSA (2014) Room temperature electrical spin injection into GaAs by an oxide spin injector. Sci Rep 4:5588

A journal article with 3 authors

Meng F, McGrath KP, Hoveyda AH (2014) Multifunctional organoboron compounds for scalable natural product synthesis. Nature 513:367–374

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Essers MAG, de Vries-Smits LMM, Barker N, et al (2005) Functional interaction between beta-catenin and FOXO in oxidative stress signaling. Science 308:1181–1184

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ralph D, Graham P (2004) MMS: Technologies, Usage and Business Models. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Flegel U, Bruschi D (eds) (2009) Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment: 6th International Conference, DIMVA 2009, Como, Italy, July 9-10, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Şakul K (2011) General Observations on the Ottoman Military Industry, 1774–1839: Problems of Organization and Standardization. In: Günergun F, Raina D (eds) Science between Europe and Asia: Historical Studies on the Transmission, Adoption and Adaptation of Knowledge. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 41–55

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

Carpineti A (2017) Scientists Discover A New Intriguing Fast Radio Burst. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-discover-a-new-intriguing-fast-radio-burst/. 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 (2012) Aviation Safety: FAA Is Taking Steps to Improve Data, but Challenges for Managing Safety 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

Nattress DA (2013) Benefits of single-gender education: Perceptions of middle grade teachers. 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

Rueck K (1972) “ LITTLE TIME FOR EXTRAS”; What’s a Stewardess. New York Times travel and resorts-summer vacations-part 1XX4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carmody 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Carmody 2001; Bhat and Kumar 2014).

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

Two authors: (Bhat and Kumar 2014)
Three or more authors: (Essers et al. 2005)

About the journal

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