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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Horticulture 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	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

Gifford, D. K. 2001. Blazing pathways through genetic mountains. Science 293:2049–2051.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wakim, L. M. and M. J. Bevan. 2011. Cross-dressed dendritic cells drive memory CD8+ T-cell activation after viral infection. Nature 471:629–632.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nowak, M. A., N. L. Komarova and P. Niyogi. 2001. Evolution of universal grammar. Science 291:114–118.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuroda, A., K. Nomura, R. Ohtomo, J. Kato, T. Ikeda, N. Takiguchi, H. Ohtake and A. Kornberg. 2001. Role of inorganic polyphosphate in promoting ribosomal protein degradation by the Lon protease in E. coli. Science 293:705–708.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsch, R. 2017. Convergence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, pp.

An edited book

Fülöp, Z., G. Gyürky and E. Somorjai, editors. 2006. The 2nd International Conference on Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics: Refereed and Selected Contributions Debrecen, Hungary May 16–20, 2005. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XVI, 349 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Madsen, O. L. 2014. Building Safe Concurrency Abstractions. In G. Agha, A. Igarashi, N. Kobayashi, H. Masuhara, S. Matsuoka, E. Shibayama, K. Taura (eds.). Concurrent Objects and Beyond: Papers dedicated to Akinori Yonezawa on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday., Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 66–104.

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 Horticulture Journal.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. 2016. Success! Juno Enters Orbit Around Jupiter In Historic Mission. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/success-juno-enters-orbit-around-jupiter-in-historic-mission/. Accessed October 30, 2018 IFLScience.

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. GAO ADP Data Lines: Issue No. 1. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, pp.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brecese, J. A. 2012. Out of Our Depth: Hyper-Extensionality and the Return of Three-Dimensional Media. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL pp.

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

Kanter, J. 2017. Split, Then Talk Trade, Europe Tells the British. New York Times A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gifford, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Gifford, 2001; Wakim and Bevan, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Wakim and Bevan, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kuroda et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Horticulture Journal
ISSN (print)	2189-0102
ISSN (online)	2189-0110
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