How to format your references using the Weed Research citation style

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

Solomon S (2004). The hole truth. Nature 427, 289–291.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eroglu C & Barres BA (2010). Regulation of synaptic connectivity by glia. Nature 468, 223–231.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schwarz G, Mendel RR & Ribbe MW (2009). Molybdenum cofactors, enzymes and pathways. Nature 460, 839–847.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Moreno PI, Jacobson GL Jr, Lowell TV & Denton GH (2001). Interhemispheric climate links revealed by late-glacial cooling episode in southern Chile. Nature 409, 804–808.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gros D & Lannoo K (2004). The Euro Capital Market. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Corless RM (2013). A Graduate Introduction to Numerical Methods: From the Viewpoint of Backward Error Analysis. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Povh B, Rith K, Scholz C, Zetsche F & Rodejohann W (2015). Scattering. In: Particles and Nuclei: An Introduction to the Physical Concepts. , Graduate Texts in Physics. (eds K Rith, C Scholz, F Zetsche & W Rodejohann), 41–53. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Weed Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015). Incredible Photographs Show The “Dark Side” Of The Moon From More Than A Million Miles Away. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/dark-side-moon-captured-nasas-epic-camera/ (Accessed October 30, 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 (1970). Comments on H.R. 16443. No. 094452. 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

Mathes MD (2014). Exploring Factors That Enabled Financial Advisors and Their Firms to Improve Professional Performance After 2008. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Boucher B (2017). Between Fable and Fact. New York Times. BR9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Solomon, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Solomon, 2004; Eroglu & Barres, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Eroglu & Barres, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Moreno et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Weed Research
ISSN (print)	0043-1737
ISSN (online)	1365-3180
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