How to format your references using the Agricultural and Food Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Agricultural and Food Economics. 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

Lee VM (2001) Biomedicine. Tauists and beta-aptists united--well almost! Science 293:1446–1447

A journal article with 2 authors

Spalding MD, Brown BE (2015) Warm-water coral reefs and climate change. Science 350:769–771

A journal article with 3 authors

Carbone F, Kwon O-H, Zewail AH (2009) Dynamics of chemical bonding mapped by energy-resolved 4D electron microscopy. Science 325:181–184

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liang W, Bockrath M, Bozovic D, et al (2001) Fabry - Perot interference in a nanotube electron waveguide. Nature 411:665–669

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gleeson K (2008) The Personal Efficiency Program. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Greefhorst D (2011) Architecture Principles: The Cornerstones of Enterprise Architecture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Andresen M, Bodine G, Concannon C, et al (2006) Electronic Trading. In: Schwartz RA, Byrne JA, Colaninno A (eds) Electronic vs. Floor Based Trading. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 67–87

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 Agricultural and Food Economics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Meet The Glow-In-The-Dark Shark. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1998) Surface Infrastructure: Review of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Restructuring Plan. 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

Byrd WE (2009) Relational programming in miniKanren: Techniques, applications, and implementations. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University

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

Soloski A (2017) As Battered as Job, He Bills by the Hour. New York Times C5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lee 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Lee 2001; Spalding and Brown 2015).

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

Two authors: (Spalding and Brown 2015)
Three or more authors: (Liang et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agricultural and Food Economics
Abbreviation	Agric. Food Econ.
ISSN (online)	2193-7532
Scope