For your Hort 150 projects you will be using the American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) citation style. This is the style used by horticulture journals such as HortScience.
You can find the full ASHS Style Guide at this link.
Below is a quick guide to get you started using the ASHS citation style.
In Text Citations
In-text citations are citations that occur within the body of your paper. ASHS utilizes the author-year notation system.
Below are some examples.
Single author:
There has been at least 532 volcanic eruptions in recorded history (Ramos 2015).
Ramos (2015) found 532 volcanic eruptions in recorded history.
Two authors:
There has been at least 532 volcanic eruptions in recorded history (Ramos and Wilson 2015).
Ramos and Wilson (2015) found 532 volcanic eruptions in recorded history.
More than two authors
There has been at least 532 volcanic eruptions in recorded history (Ramos et al. 2015).
Ramos et al. (2015) found 532 volcanic eruptions in recorded history.
More than two studies cited
There has been at least 532 volcanic eruptions in recorded history (Ramos and Wilson, 2015; Martinez, 2019).
Ramos and Wilson (2015) and Martinez (2019) both found 532 volcanic eruptions in recorded history.
Creating a reference section in ASHS
Examples taken from the the ASHS Style Guide (see pages starting at #87 in PDF)
Citation Management Applications
There are some free citation management software applications that will assist you with organizing citations, exporting citations, and building reference lists. Each of these applications have plugins for Microsoft Word.
You can learn more about those applications on this WSU guide. Such applications although helpful, do operate on a garbage in/garbage out principal. Those applications are: