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

Perutz, R.N., 2008. Chemistry. A catalytic foothold for fluorocarbon reactions. Science 321, 1168–1169.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keen, D.A., Goodwin, A.L., 2015. The crystallography of correlated disorder. Nature 521, 303–309.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hagan, C.L., Kim, S., Kahne, D., 2010. Reconstitution of outer membrane protein assembly from purified components. Science 328, 890–892.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Buskila, Y., Breen, P.P., Tapson, J., van Schaik, A., Barton, M., Morley, J.W., 2014. Extending the viability of acute brain slices. Sci. Rep. 4, 5309.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kudnig, S.T., Séguin, B., 2012. Veterinary Surgical Oncology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Gierlichs, B., Guilley, S., Mukhopadhyay, D. (Eds.), 2013. Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering: Third International Conference, SPACE 2013, Kharagpur, India, October 19-23, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Simmons, K., Carstarphen, S., 2012. Installing and Upgrading, in: Carstarphen, S. (Ed.), Pro SQL Server 2012 Administration. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp. 61–98.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. How To See Tonight’s Peak Of The Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-see-tonights-peak-eta-aquariid-meteor-shower/ (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, 1990. Aircraft Maintenance: Potential Shortage in National Aircraft Repair Capacity (No. RCED-91-14). 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

Maddox, C.E., 2012. Postcolonial play: Encounters with sport and physical culture in contemporary India (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Oestreich, J.R., 2017. Lamenting Dead Kings, Spending Sunday at the Pub. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perutz, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Keen and Goodwin, 2015; Perutz, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Keen and Goodwin, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Buskila et al., 2014)

About the journal

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