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

Dowdeswell, J.A., 2006. Atmospheric science. The Greenland Ice Sheet and global sea-level rise. Science 311, 963–964.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gokhale, V.J., Rais-Zadeh, M., 2014. Phonon-electron interactions in piezoelectric semiconductor bulk acoustic wave resonators. Sci. Rep. 4, 5617.

A journal article with 3 authors

Das, G., Talukdar, P., Matile, S., 2002. Fluorometric detection of enzyme activity with synthetic supramolecular pores. Science 298, 1600–1602.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tang, H., Bowers, J.E., Wang, X., Ming, R., Alam, M., Paterson, A.H., 2008. Synteny and collinearity in plant genomes. Science 320, 486–488.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Troppens, U., Erkens, R., Müller, W., 2004. Storage Networks Explained. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hu, R., Liu, J., Zhai, M. (Eds.), 2010. Mineral Resources Science in China: A Roadmap to 2050. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Borwein, P., Choi, S., Rooney, B., Weirathmueller, A., 2008. Equivalent Statements, in: Borwein, P., Choi, S., Rooney, B., Weirathmueller, A. (Eds.), The Riemann Hypothesis: A Resource for the Afficionado and Virtuoso Alike, CMS Books in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 45–54.

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 Horticulturae.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. Humpback Whales Protect Other Animals From Killer Whales, But No One Knows Why [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humpback-whales-protect-other-animals-from-killer-whales-but-no-one-knows-why/ (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, 1983. Poor Design and Management Hamper Army’s Basic Skills Education Program (No. FPCD-83-19). 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

Berkowitz, E.S., 2013. Some novel phenomena at high density (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

Kelly, M., 1992. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Undeclared Candidate; Seeking Better Image, Perot Shifts Campaign. New York Times A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dowdeswell, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Dowdeswell, 2006; Gokhale and Rais-Zadeh, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gokhale and Rais-Zadeh, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tang et al., 2008)

About the journal

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