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

Brumfiel, G., 2009. Arms pact could boost US-Russian science. Nature 460, 316.

A journal article with 2 authors

Holowka, S., Petitto, L.A., 2002. Left hemisphere cerebral specialization for babies while babbling. Science 297, 1515.

A journal article with 3 authors

Insel, T.R., Landis, S.C., Collins, F.S., 2013. Research priorities. The NIH BRAIN Initiative. Science 340, 687–688.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Valle, M., Gillet, R., Kaur, S., Henne, A., Ramakrishnan, V., Frank, J., 2003. Visualizing tmRNA entry into a stalled ribosome. Science 300, 127–130.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schmidt, A.B., 2011. Financial Markets and Trading. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Isakov, V. (Ed.), 2009. Sobolev Spaces in Mathematics III: Applications in Mathematical Physics, International Mathematical Series. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumagai, H., Watanabe, H., Yahagi, T., Kojima, S., Nakai, S., Toyoda, S., Ishibashi, J.-I., 2015. Evaluating Hydrothermal System Evolution Using Geochronological Dating and Biological Diversity Analyses, in: Ishibashi, J.-I., Okino, K., Sunamura, M. (Eds.), Subseafloor Biosphere Linked to Hydrothermal Systems: TAIGA Concept. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 49–59.

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

Luntz, S., 2017. If Color Affects Taxi Safety, Which Shade Is Safest? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/if-color-affects-taxi-safety-which-shade-is-safest/ (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, 2014. Healthcare.gov: Contract Planning and Oversight Practices Were Ineffective Given the Challenges and Risks (No. GAO-14-824T). 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

Cross, A., 2017. Tinkering in k-12: an exploratory mixed methods study of makerspaces in schools as an application of constructivist learning (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Pilon, M., 2012. How Do Kenyan 10K Runners Get to London? Through Raindrops in Oregon. New York Times SP9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brumfiel, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Brumfiel, 2009; Holowka and Petitto, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Holowka and Petitto, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Valle et al., 2003)

About the journal

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