How to format your references using the Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus (ACS). 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

Comerio M.C. (2006). Earthquake anniversary. Can buildings be made earthquake-safe? Science 312 (5771): 204–206

A journal article with 2 authors

Devos D.P., Reynaud E.G. (2010). Evolution. Intermediate steps. Science 330 (6008): 1187–1188

A journal article with 3 authors

Jayne B.C., Voris H.K., Ng P.K.L. (2002). Snake circumvents constraints on prey size. Nature 418 (6894): 143

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yi R., Poy M.N., Stoffel M., Fuchs E. (2008). A skin microRNA promotes differentiation by repressing ‘stemness’. Nature 452 (7184): 225–229

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wong K.D. (2011). Fundamentals of Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bründermann E. (2012). Terahertz Techniques, Springer Series in Optical Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XXII, 386 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Scott H.A. (2016). Collisional-Radiative Modeling for Radiation Hydrodynamics Codes. In: Modern Methods in Collisional-Radiative Modeling of Plasmas, Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics (Ralchenko Y., ed), Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 81–104

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 Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus.

Blog post

Andrew D. (2016). The Unbelievable Life Of The Forgotten Genius Who Turned Americans’ Space Dreams Into Reality. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-unbelievable-life-of-the-forgotten-genius-who-turned-americans-space-dreams-into-reality/ [Accessed 30 October 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. (2012). Commercial Space Launches: FAA Should Update How It Assesses Federal Liability Risk. No. GAO-12-899. 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

Barrett B.T. (2015). Modernizing Copyright for Equitable Treatment in the Streaming Age. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

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

Kelly S. (2003). METRO FARE. New York Times 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Comerio, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Comerio, 2006; Devos and Reynaud, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Devos and Reynaud, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Yi et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agriculturae Conspectus Scientificus
ISSN (print)	1331-7768
ISSN (online)	1331-7776
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