How to format your references using the Seed Science Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Seed Science Research. 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

Reynolds, A. M. (2014) Mussels realize Weierstrassian Lévy walks as composite correlated random walks. Scientific reports 4, 4409.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schindler, D. E. and Hilborn, R. (2015) Sustainability. Prediction, precaution, and policy under global change. Science (New York, N.Y.) 347, 953–954.

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson, K. S., Riser, S. C. and Karl, D. M. (2010) Nitrate supply from deep to near-surface waters of the North Pacific subtropical gyre. Nature 465, 1062–1065.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gruszczyk, J., Huang, R. K., Chan, L.-J., Menant, S., Hong, C., Murphy, J. M., Mok, Y.-F., Griffin, M. D. W., Pearson, R. D., Wong, W., Cowman, A. F., Yu, Z. and Tham, W.-H. (2018) Cryo-EM structure of an essential Plasmodium vivax invasion complex. Nature 559, 135–139.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, R. A. (2012) Extreme Tissue Engineering. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

De Paolis, L. T. and Mongelli, A. eds. (2016) Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics: Third International Conference, AVR 2016, Lecce, Italy, June 15-18, 2016. Proceedings, Part II. Cham, Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Rabung, S., Wieser, M., Thomas, A., Testoni, I. and Evans, C. (2016) Psychometric evaluation of the German version of the revised spontaneity assessment inventory (SAI-R), pp. 25–39 in Stadler, C., Wieser, M., and Kirk, K. (Eds.) Psychodrama. Empirical Research and Science 2. Wiesbaden, Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

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 Seed Science Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-we-fell-out-love-algorithms-inspired-nature/ (accessed 30 October 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 (2000) College Tuition and Fees: Changes in the 1995-96 to 1999-2000 Period Compared With Median Household Income. HEHS-00-198R. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Yu, H. (2009) Parasitism of subterranean termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae: Termitidae) by entomopathogenic nematodes (Nematoda: Steinernematidae: Heterorhabditidae).

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

Hollander, S. (2000) Navratilova Loves This.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reynolds, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Reynolds, 2014; Schindler and Hilborn, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Schindler and Hilborn, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Gruszczyk et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Seed Science Research
Abbreviation	Seed Sci. Res.
ISSN (print)	0960-2585
ISSN (online)	1475-2735
Scope	Plant Science