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

Lander, E. S. (2011) Initial impact of the sequencing of the human genome. Nature 470, 187–197.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dauphas, N. and Kasting, J. F. (2011) Low pCO2 in the pore water, not in the Archean air. Nature 474, E2-3; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoerling, M. P., Hurrell, J. W. and Xu, T. (2001) Tropical origins for recent North Atlantic climate change. Science (New York, N.Y.) 292, 90–92.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huang, Y., Fang, J., Bedford, M. T., Zhang, Y. and Xu, R.-M. (2006) Recognition of histone H3 lysine-4 methylation by the double tudor domain of JMJD2A. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312, 748–751.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lednicer, D. (2015) Antineoplastic Drugs. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Contopoulos, I., Gabuzda, D. and Kylafis, N. eds. (2015) The Formation and Disruption of Black Hole Jets. Cham, Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Casalicchio, E. and Silvestri, L. (2013) Autonomic Management of Cloud-Based Systems: The Service Provider Perspective, pp. 39–47 in Gelenbe, E. and Lent, R. (Eds.) Computer and Information Sciences III: 27th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences. London, Springer.

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

Davis, J. (2016) IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-the-snake-lost-its-legs/ (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 (2002) Information Technology Services: Agencies Complying with Revision to Federal Acquisition Regulation. GAO-03-32. 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

Morales, D. (2017) Understanding How Perceptions of School Leadership and School Community Relationships Affected Veteran Teachers’ Decisions to Remain Working in Urban Elementary Schools.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010) A Whirlwind Start For St. John’s and Lavin.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lander, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Lander, 2011; Dauphas and Kasting, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Dauphas and Kasting, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al., 2006)

About the journal

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