How to format your references using the The Crop Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Crop Journal. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

P. Zoller, Tricks with a single photon, Nature 404 (2000) 340–341.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.B. McGraw, M.A. Furedi, Deer browsing and population viability of a forest understory plant, Science 307 (2005) 920–922.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P.M. Fuller, J. Lu, C.B. Saper, Differential rescue of light- and food-entrainable circadian rhythms, Science 320 (2008) 1074–1077.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Arase, E.S. Mocarski, A.E. Campbell, A.B. Hill, L.L. Lanier, Direct recognition of cytomegalovirus by activating and inhibitory NK cell receptors, Science 296 (2002) 1323–1326.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Mauthe, P. Thomas, Professional Content Management Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

N.G. Ashar, A Practical Guide to the Manufacture of Sulfuric Acid, Oleums, and Sulfonating Agents, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Nichol, Colonialism and Western Education in Melanesia and Australia, in: R. Nichol (Ed.), Growing up Indigenous: Developing Effective Pedagogy for Education and Development, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2011: pp. 83–89.

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 The Crop Journal.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, World Set To Lose Two-Thirds Of Its Wildlife By 2020, Says WWF, IFLScience (2016).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Federal-Aid Highways: Increased Reliance on Contractors Can Pose Oversight Challenges for Federal and State Officials, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.N. Samble, Persistence and Advancement in NCAA Division I: Lived Experiences of Female Athletic Administrators, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2017.

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

[1]

C. Hauser, Secret Service Agent Under Investigation, New York Times (2017) A13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	The Crop Journal
Abbreviation	Crop J.
ISSN (print)	2214-5141
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science