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

Macilwain C (2000) Critics blast US missile defence system as flawed. Nature 404:799

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin TJ, Mundy GR (2007) Bone metastasis: can osteoclasts be excluded? Nature 445:E19; discussion E19-20

A journal article with 3 authors

Yabuta NH, Sawatari A, Callaway EM (2001) Two functional channels from primary visual cortex to dorsal visual cortical areas. Science 292:297–300

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Butterfield GL, Lajoie MJ, Gustafson HH, et al (2017) Evolution of a designed protein assembly encapsulating its own RNA genome. Nature 552:415–420

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hezaveh A (2007) SAS® 9 Study Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Holz FG, Spaide RF (eds) (2005) Medical Retina. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gollub T, Busse M, Stein B, Hagen M (2016) Keyqueries for Clustering and Labeling. In: Ma S, Wen J-R, Liu Y, et al. (eds) Information Retrieval Technology: 12th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2016, Beijing, China, November 30 – December 2, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 42–55

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 (2016) Midwinter Heatwave Predicted To Hit The Arctic. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/midwinter-heatwave-predicted-to-hit-the-arctic/. 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 (1989) Computer Systems: Actions on OMB Recommendations for a Joint Lookout System. 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

Mueller K (2017) Biases in the Selection Process Against Applicants with Tattoos. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by (2006) Arts, Briefly; Home-Grown Films Are Booming in Russia. New York Times E2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain 2000; Martin and Mundy 2007).

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

Two authors: (Martin and Mundy 2007)
Three or more authors: (Butterfield et al. 2017)

About the journal

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