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

Engheta N (2011) Applied physics. Antenna-guided light. Science 334:317–318

A journal article with 2 authors

Meyer JR, Kassen R (2007) The effects of competition and predation on diversification in a model adaptive radiation. Nature 446:432–435

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang Q, Shalaby NA, Buszczak M (2014) Changes in rRNA transcription influence proliferation and cell fate within a stem cell lineage. Science 343:298–301

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Csete M, Sipos A, Szalai A, et al (2013) Improvement of infrared single-photon detectors absorptance by integrated plasmonic structures. Sci Rep 3:2406

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

German Geotechnical Society (2013) Recommendations on Excavations EAB. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Nonami K, Kartidjo M, Yoon K-J, Budiyono A (eds) (2013) Autonomous Control Systems and Vehicles: Intelligent Unmanned Systems. Springer Japan, Tokyo

A chapter in an edited book

Eberli GP, Westphal H (2010) Summary: The Depositional Systems of the Bahamas, Belize Lagoon and The Gulf Compared. In: Westphal H, Riegl B, Eberli GP (eds) Carbonate Depositional Systems: Assessing Dimensions and Controlling Parameters: The Bahamas, Belize and the Persian/Arabian Gulf. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 215–229

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

Luntz S (2014) Watch A Giant Leech Swallow A Giant Worm Whole. 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 (1996) Satellite Control Capabilities: National Policy Could Help Consolidation and Cost Savings. 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

Shamsai M (2006) Prefabricated Cage System for Reinforcing Concrete Members. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Rothenberg B (2017) Wimbledon’s Qualifying Tournament Is Both 3½ Miles and a World Away. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Engheta 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Meyer and Kassen 2007; Engheta 2011).

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

Two authors: (Meyer and Kassen 2007)
Three or more authors: (Csete et al. 2013)

About the journal

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