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

Moskvitch K (2014) Astronomy: To catch a cosmic ray. Nature 514:20–22

A journal article with 2 authors

Istvan ES, Deisenhofer J (2001) Structural mechanism for statin inhibition of HMG-CoA reductase. Science 292:1160–1164

A journal article with 3 authors

Ledingham KWD, McKenna P, Singhal RP (2003) Applications for nuclear phenomena generated by ultra-intense lasers. Science 300:1107–1111

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Akichika S, Hirano S, Shichino Y, et al (2018) Cap-specific terminal N6-methylation of RNA by an RNA polymerase II-associated methyltransferase. Science

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bays DH (2011) A New History of Christianity in China. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Oja SS, Saransaari P (eds) (2006) Taurine 6. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Großgasteiger F, Akinalp C (2013) Lying in Group-Communication in El-Farol-Games Patterns of Successful Manipulation. In: Meesad P, Unger H, Boonkrong S (eds) The 9th International Conference on Computing and InformationTechnology (IC2IT2013): 9th-10th May 2013 King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 9–18

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

Davis J (2017) New Drug Therapies Can Treat Even The Most Resistant Strains Of TB. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-drug-therapies-can-treat-even-the-most-resistant-strains-of-tb/. 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 (1984) Query Concerning FY 1985 Authorization Levels for Department of Education Programs. 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

Hume DM (2010) The reader as collaborator in Coleridge’s fragments “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “Christabel,” and “Kubla Khan”: Kindling “Native flames” rather than reflecting “Alien fires.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Tackett M (2017) Winning? Political Bellwether Grows Tired Waiting for Trump to Deliver. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moskvitch 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Istvan and Deisenhofer 2001; Moskvitch 2014).

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

Two authors: (Istvan and Deisenhofer 2001)
Three or more authors: (Akichika et al. 2018)

About the journal

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