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

Asphaug, E., 2007. Planetary science. The shifting sands of asteroids. Science 316, 993–994.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stroscio, J.A., Celotta, R.J., 2004. Controlling the dynamics of a single atom in lateral atom manipulation. Science 306, 242–247.

A journal article with 3 authors

Masle, J., Gilmore, S.R., Farquhar, G.D., 2005. The ERECTA gene regulates plant transpiration efficiency in Arabidopsis. Nature 436, 866–870.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yusupov, M.M., Yusupova, G.Z., Baucom, A., Lieberman, K., Earnest, T.N., Cate, J.H., Noller, H.F., 2001. Crystal structure of the ribosome at 5.5 A resolution. Science 292, 883–896.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kraehmer, H., Baur, P., 2013. Weed Anatomy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Mander, W.J., Panagakou, S. (Eds.), 2016. British Idealism and the Concept of the Self. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Shah, V.P., Williams, R.L., 2014. Importance of In Vitro Drug Release, in: Shah, V.P., Maibach, H.I., Jenner, J. (Eds.), Topical Drug Bioavailability, Bioequivalence, and Penetration. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 61–67.

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., 2014. Are Your Bacteria Making You Fat? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/are-your-bacteria-making-you-fat/ (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, 2013. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Standards Needed to Improve Identification of Racial and Ethnic Overrepresentation in Special Education (No. GAO-13-137). 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

Nevin, M.J., 2017. Addressing the Learning Outcomes and Assessment Methods Associated with Participation in Student Government Associations: A Qualitative Study of California Community Colleges (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

Williams, J., 2017. Learning About His Subjects, and Himself. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Asphaug, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Asphaug, 2007; Stroscio and Celotta, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Stroscio and Celotta, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Yusupov et al., 2001)

About the journal

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