How to format your references using the VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for VITIS - Journal of Grapevine 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

Albrecht, M., 2009: Chemistry. Carbenes in Action. Science (New York, N.Y.) 326, 532–533.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hattori, M., Gouaux, E., 2012: Molecular Mechanism of ATP Binding and Ion Channel Activation in P2X Receptors. Nature 485, 207–212.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gray, H.M., Gray, K., Wegner, D.M., 2007: Dimensions of Mind Perception. Science (New York, N.Y.) 315, 619.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Komiyama, S., Astafiev, O., Antonov, V., V., Kutsuwa, T., Hirai, H., 2000: A Single-Photon Detector in the Far-Infrared Range. Nature 403, 405–407.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krimpmann, A., 2015: Principles of Group Accounting under IFRS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Bally, V., 2016: Stochastic Integration by Parts and Functional Itô Calculus, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Advanced Courses in Mathematics - CRM Barcelona. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Andrews, M., Seddighi, H., Hodge, S., McKenzie, B.A., Yadav, S.S., 2010: Consequences of Predicted Climatic Changes on International Trade in Cool Season Grain Legume Crops. In: Yadav, S.S., Redden, R. (Eds). Climate Change and Management of Cool Season Grain Legume Crops. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 87–97.

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 VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014: Sci-Fi Style Prosthetic Arm Wins FDA Approval [WWW Document]. IFLScience, URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sci-fi-style-prosthetic-arm-wins-fda-approval/ (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, 1984: ADP, IRM & Telecommunications (No. IMTEC-84-9). 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

Martin, L.K., 2016: Norway leads the world in gender equality and work-life balance: A qualitative life course study of Norwegian women (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Kolomatsky, M., 2017: How Much You Need to Make. New York Times RE2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Albrecht, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Albrecht, 2009; Hattori and Gouaux, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Hattori and Gouaux, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Komiyama et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	VITIS - Journal of Grapevine Research
ISSN (online)	2367-4156
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