How to format your references using the Scientia Horticulturae citation style

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

Ho, C.-H., 2014. Amorphous effect on the advancing of wide-range absorption and structural-phase transition in γ-In2Se3 polycrystalline layers. Sci. Rep. 4, 4764.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guillot, C., Lecuit, T., 2013. Mechanics of epithelial tissue homeostasis and morphogenesis. Science 340, 1185–1189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dhara, S., Mele, E.J., Agarwal, R., 2015. APPLIED OPTICS. Voltage-tunable circular photogalvanic effect in silicon nanowires. Science 349, 726–729.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Blewett, D.T., Chabot, N.L., Denevi, B.W., Ernst, C.M., Head, J.W., Izenberg, N.R., Murchie, S.L., Solomon, S.C., Nittler, L.R., McCoy, T.J., Xiao, Z., Baker, D.M.H., Fassett, C.I., Braden, S.E., Oberst, J., Scholten, F., Preusker, F., Hurwitz, D.M., 2011. Hollows on Mercury: MESSENGER evidence for geologically recent volatile-related activity. Science 333, 1856–1859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bruen, G.O., 2015. WHOIS Running the Internet. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cai, X., Yeh, T.-C.J. (Eds.), 2008. Quantitative Information Fusion for Hydrological Sciences, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Croft, H., 2016. Rethinking Civilian Neuroses in the Second World War, in: Leese, P., Crouthamel, J. (Eds.), Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 95–116.

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 Horticulturae.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2016. NASA And FEMA Ran An Asteroid Impact Emergency Planning Exercise [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1993. Airline Competition: Strategies for Addressing Financial and Competitive Problems in the Airline Industry (No. T-RCED-93-11). 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

Webster, W.P., 2014. The Influence of Philanthropy and Administrative Decision-making Models on a Liberal Arts College’s Strategic Planning Process: A Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Crow, K., 2003. Reservoir’s Sunken Fountain Is Rising From the Deep. New York Times 145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ho, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Guillot and Lecuit, 2013; Ho, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Guillot and Lecuit, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Blewett et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Scientia Horticulturae
Abbreviation	Sci. Hortic. (Amsterdam)
ISSN (print)	0304-4238
Scope	Horticulture