How to format your references using the Agricultural and Forest Meteorology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Chandler, D., 2002. Hydrophobicity: two faces of water. Nature 417, 491.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taberlet, P., Cheddadi, R., 2002. Ecology. Quaternary refugia and persistence of biodiversity. Science 297, 2009–2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ash, C., Foley, J., Pennisi, E., 2008. Microbial ecology. Lost in microbial space. Special section introduction. Science 320, 1027.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bao, A., Tao, H.-S., Liu, H.-D., Zhang, X., Liu, W.-M., 2014. Quantum magnetic phase transition in square-octagon lattice. Sci. Rep. 4, 6918.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Poltorak, A.I., Lerner, P.J., 2011. Essentials of Intellectual Property. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gottlieb, J., Raidl, G.R. (Eds.), 2006. Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization: 6th European Conference, EvoCOP 2006, Budapest, Hungary, April 10-12, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Barbosa, V.H., 2013. Nonscarring Alopecias, in: Alexis, A.F., Barbosa, V.H. (Eds.), Skin of Color: A Practical Guide to Dermatologic Diagnosis and Treatment. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 91–104.

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 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2014. Man Builds Gun That Folds And Fires Paper Airplanes [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/man-makes-paper-airplane-gun-using-3d-printed-parts/ (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, 1986. Selected Information on Bypass of Local Telephone Companies (No. RCED-86-100). 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

Errett, R., 2014. Acid Mine Drainage In The Big Muddy River Watershed (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Kanter, J., Kitsantonis, N., 2017. Tough Act to Follow. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chandler, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Chandler, 2002; Taberlet and Cheddadi, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Taberlet and Cheddadi, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Bao et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Abbreviation	Agric. For. Meteorol.
ISSN (print)	0168-1923
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Forestry Atmospheric Science Global and Planetary Change