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

Ward, B.B., 2013. Oceans. How nitrogen is lost. Science 341, 352–353.

A journal article with 2 authors

Smith, J.S., Boeke, J.D., 2001. Transcription. Is S phase important for transcriptional silencing? Science 291, 608–609.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hattori, Y., Tomonaga, M., Matsuzawa, T., 2013. Spontaneous synchronized tapping to an auditory rhythm in a chimpanzee. Sci. Rep. 3, 1566.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vora, A., Gwamuri, J., Pala, N., Kulkarni, A., Pearce, J.M., Güney, D.Ö., 2014. Exchanging Ohmic losses in metamaterial absorbers with useful optical absorption for photovoltaics. Sci. Rep. 4, 4901.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hernandez, E.M., Kamal-Eldin, A., 2013. Processing and Nutrition of Fats and Oils. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Nakamura, S., Kondo, Y. (Eds.), 2009. Waste Input-Output Analysis: Concepts and Application to Industrial Ecology, Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Calvetti, D., Somersalo, E., 2007. Basic problem in numerical linear algebra, in: Somersalo, E. (Ed.), Introduction to Bayesian Scientific Computing: Ten Lectures on Subjective Computing, Surveys and Tutorials in the Applied Mathematical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 61–90.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Stunning, Crystal-Clear Images Of Pluto – But What Do They Mean? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1979. Improvements Needed in the Migrant Education Program (No. HRD-79-100). 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

Sinha, R., 2017. An Integrated Development Environment for the Clara Constraint-Programming Language (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Corkery, M., Walsh, M.W., 2015. Puerto Rico’s Crisis Draws Split in Congress and Muted White House Reply. New York Times B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ward, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Smith and Boeke, 2001; Ward, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Smith and Boeke, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Vora 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