How to format your references using the Agri Gene citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Agri Gene. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Shoichet, B.K., 2004. Virtual screening of chemical libraries. Nature 432, 862–865.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maloy, K.J., Powrie, F., 2011. Intestinal homeostasis and its breakdown in inflammatory bowel disease. Nature 474, 298–306.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Y., Zhang, X., Cao, D., 2013. The role of shape complementarity in the protein-protein interactions. Sci. Rep. 3, 3271.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Musevic, I., Skarabot, M., Tkalec, U., Ravnik, M., Zumer, S., 2006. Two-dimensional nematic colloidal crystals self-assembled by topological defects. Science 313, 954–958.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meschede, D., 2017. Optics, Light, and Lasers. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Panigrahi, B.K., Abraham, A., Das, S. (Eds.), 2010. Computational Intelligence in Power Engineering, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ash, J.M., 2016. Victor Shapiro and the Theory of Uniqueness for Multiple Trigonometric Series, in: Pereyra, M.C., Marcantognini, S., Stokolos, A.M., Urbina, W. (Eds.), Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, Complex Analysis, Banach Spaces, and Operator Theory (Volume 1): Celebrating Cora Sadosky’s Life, Association for Women in Mathematics Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 123–132.

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 Agri Gene.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015. Corn’s Surprisingly Complicated Voyage Into the American Southwest [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/corns-surprisingly-complicated-voyage-american-southwest/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2011. The Department of Transportation Found That It Improperly Obligated Motor Carrier Grant Funds (No. GAO-11-517R). 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

Tucker, T., 2014. Psychoeducational support groups for postadoptive parents: A grant-writing project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Dinardo, K., 2013. Laetitia Trouillet, Designer, on the Shops and Souks of Marrakesh. New York Times TR3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shoichet, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Maloy and Powrie, 2011; Shoichet, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Maloy and Powrie, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Musevic et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agri Gene
Abbreviation	Agri Gene
ISSN (print)	2352-2151
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