How to format your references using the Weed Technology citation style

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

Kaufman F (2012) Futures market: Wall Street’s thirst for water. Nature 490:469–471

A journal article with 2 authors

De Yoreo JJ, Dove PM (2004) Materials science. Shaping crystals with biomolecules. Science 306:1301–1302

A journal article with 3 authors

Turk MJ, Abel T, O’Shea B (2009) The formation of Population III binaries from cosmological initial conditions. Science 325:601–605

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schwickart M, Huang X, Lill JR, Liu J, Ferrando R, French DM, Maecker H, O’Rourke K, Bazan F, Eastham-Anderson J, Yue P, Dornan D, Huang DCS, Dixit VM (2010) Deubiquitinase USP9X stabilizes MCL1 and promotes tumour cell survival. Nature 463:103–107

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stokes G (2008) A Practical Guide to the Wiring Regulations. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Science Ltd

An edited book

Morschett D (2009) Strategic International Management: Text and Cases. Page (H Schramm-Klein, J Zentes, eds.). Wiesbaden: Gabler. X, 470 p. 124 illus p

A chapter in an edited book

Legutke S (2012) Building Earth System Models. Pages 45–54 in G Riley, R Budich, R Redler, eds. Earth System Modelling - Volume 5: Tools for Configuring, Building and Running Models. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Weed Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Why Are Bugs Attracted To light? IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-are-bugs-attracted-light/. 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 (2014) Early Learning and Child Care: Federal Funds Support Multiple Programs with Similar Goals. GAO-14-325T. 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

Pepper I (2010) On the Difference between Serialism and Seriality. Doctoral dissertation. New York, NY: Columbia University

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

Poniewozik J (2016) In Battle of Candidates, Lauer Is the Loser. New York Times:A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kaufman 2012).
This sentence cites two references (De Yoreo and Dove 2004; Kaufman 2012).

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

Two authors: (De Yoreo and Dove 2004)
Three or more authors: (Schwickart et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Weed Technology
Abbreviation	Weed Technol.
ISSN (print)	0890-037X
ISSN (online)	1550-2740
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Plant Science