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

Jox R (2003) Europe chips in for training. Nature 425:326

A journal article with 2 authors

Eiben AE, Smith J (2015) From evolutionary computation to the evolution of things. Nature 521:476–482

A journal article with 3 authors

Watanabe Y, Martini JE, Ohmoto H (2000) Geochemical evidence for terrestrial ecosystems 2.6 billion years ago. Nature 408:574–578

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Inatani M, Irie F, Plump AS, Tessier-Lavigne M, Yamaguchi Y (2003) Mammalian brain morphogenesis and midline axon guidance require heparan sulfate. Science 302:1044–1046

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schneider KA (2011) Counseling About Cancer. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Abraham A, Jiang XH, Snášel V, Pan J-S, eds. (2015) Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications: Proceedings of the Second Euro-China Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications, ECC 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing. XX, 560 p. 196 illus p

A chapter in an edited book

Putterman AM (2012) Cheek–Midface Lift. Pages 49–64 in ME Hartstein, AE Wulc, DEE Holck, eds. Midfacial Rejuvenation. New York, NY: 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

Carpineti C (2017) We Shared An Amazing Live Stream Of The Bottom Of The Pacific Ocean With You - Here Are Some Of The Coolest Things We Saw. IFLScience. 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 (2010) Public Transportation: Use of Contractors is Generally Enhancing Transit Project Oversight, and FTA is Taking Actions to Address Some Stakeholder Concerns. GAO-10-909. 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

Grigoryan A (2015) Feedback 2.0 in online writing instruction: Combining audio-visual and text-based commentary to enhance student revision and writing competency. Doctoral dissertation. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine 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

Grimes W (2016) Nina Ponomareva, Winner of Historic Gold, Dies at 87. New York Times:B7

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jox 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Eiben and Smith 2015, Jox 2003).

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

Two authors: (Eiben and Smith 2015)
Three or more authors: (Inatani et al. 2003)

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