How to format your references using the Postharvest Biology and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Postharvest Biology and Technology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Schilling, G., 2009. Spain unveils its eye on the sky. Nature 460, 674.

A journal article with 2 authors

Benkovic, S.J., Hammes-Schiffer, S., 2003. A perspective on enzyme catalysis. Science 301, 1196–1202.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sullivan, M.B., Waterbury, J.B., Chisholm, S.W., 2003. Cyanophages infecting the oceanic cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Nature 424, 1047–1051.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hong, W., Liang, F., Schaak, D., Loncar, M., Quan, Q., 2014. Nanoscale label-free bioprobes to detect intracellular proteins in single living cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 6179.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazzi, B., 2013. Treasury Finance and Development Banking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kiayias, A., 2010. Encryption for Digital Content, Advances in Information Security. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Borst, D.E., Boatright, J.H., Nickerson, J.M., 2008. Molecular Biology of IRBP and Its Role in the Visual Cycle, in: Tombran-Tink, J., Barnstable, C.J. (Eds.), Visual Transduction and Non-Visual Light Perception. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 87–122.

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 Postharvest Biology and Technology.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. Cost Of Hurricane Damage In The US Could Triple By 2100 Due To Global Warming [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/cost-of-hurricane-damage-in-the-us-could-triple-by-2100-due-to-global-warming/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1970. Overstatement of Contract Target Costs for F-1 Rocket Engines for Saturn V Launch Vehicle (No. B-167838). 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

Pan, A., 2017. The Mental Health and Well-Being of College Students in Cambodia (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kelly, D.A., 2006. Drink Lots of Fluids, and Save Time for a Frisking. New York Times SPG2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schilling, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Benkovic and Hammes-Schiffer, 2003; Schilling, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Benkovic and Hammes-Schiffer, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Hong et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Postharvest Biology and Technology
Abbreviation	Postharvest Biol. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0925-5214
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Food Science Horticulture