How to format your references using the Scientia Agriculturae Bohemica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scientia Agriculturae Bohemica (SAB). 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

Power PP (2010): Main-group elements as transition metals. Nature, 463, 171–177.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gubin MM, Schreiber RD (2015): CANCER. The odds of immunotherapy success. Science (New York, NY), 350, 158–159.

A journal article with 3 authors

Williams CC, Jan CH, Weissman JS (2014): Targeting and plasticity of mitochondrial proteins revealed by proximity-specific ribosome profiling. Science (New York, NY), 346, 748–751.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu W, Su J, Jiang J, Li X, Ye Q, Zhou H, Chen J, Li Y (2013): Two mixed-NH3/amine platinum (II) anticancer complexes featuring a dichloroacetate moiety in the leaving group. Scientific reports, 3, 2464.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marx FG, Lambert O, Uhen MD (2016): Cetacean Paleobiology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Fischer K, Florian M, Malsch T (2005): Socionics: Scalability of Complex Social Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Fisenko AI, Lemberg VF (2016): Optimization Problems for the Devices Using the Black-Body Thermal Radiation In: Lemberg, VF (ed): Black-Body Radiative, Thermodynamic, and Chromatic Functions: Tables in Finite Spectral Ranges. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 35–54.

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 Scientia Agriculturae Bohemica.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016): First ‘Wind Nebula’ Seen Around a Magnetar. IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-wind-nebula-seen-around-a-magnetar/ (accessed: 30/10/2018).

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 (1994): Special Education Reform: Districts Grapple with Inclusion Programs. 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

Aldaco R (2010): Latinas attainment of higher education: What factors contribute to their success? Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Macfarlane I (1905): ‘AN’ AND ‘H.’; II. New York Times, SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKSBR535.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Power, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Power, 2010; Gubin, Schreiber, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gubin, Schreiber, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Scientia Agriculturae Bohemica
ISSN (print)	1211-3174
ISSN (online)	1805-9430
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences