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

Chapman T (2003) Lab automation and robotics: Automation on the move. Nature 421:661, 663, 665–6

A journal article with 2 authors

Kang B, Ceder G (2009) Battery materials for ultrafast charging and discharging. Nature 458:190–193

A journal article with 3 authors

Fashami MS, Atulasimha J, Bandyopadhyay S (2013) Energy dissipation and error probability in fault-tolerant binary switching. Sci Rep 3:3204

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sun J, Zeng J, Wang X, Cartwright AN, Litchinitser NM (2014) Concealing with structured light. Sci Rep 4:4093

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raz D, Juhola A, Serrat-Fernandez J, Galis A (2006) Fast and Efficient Context-Aware Services. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Gengnagel C, Kilian A, Palz N, Scheurer F, eds. (2012) Computational Design Modelling: Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium Berlin 2011. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XVI, 347 p p

A chapter in an edited book

Walna B, Kurzyca I, Siepak J (2007) Variations in the Fluoride Level in Precipitation in a Region of Human Impact. Pages 33–40 in P Brimblecombe, H Hara, D Houle, M Novak, eds. Acid Rain - Deposition to Recovery. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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 (2016) Sea-Level Rise Has Claimed Five Whole Islands In The Pacific: First Scientific Evidence. 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 (1992) Airport Capacity: Synopses of Major Studies. RCED-92-117FS. 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

Roan R (2017) Depth and Digital in Conversation: Practicing Marriage and Family Therapy Directly With Video Game Avatars. Doctoral dissertation. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Bruno J (2017) Watching Coral Reefs Die. New York Times:SR8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapman 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Chapman 2003; Kang and Ceder 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kang and Ceder 2009)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al. 2014)

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