How to format your references using the Agricultural Systems citation style

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

Chambers, J., 2009. Planetary science: Archaeology of the asteroid belt. Nature 460, 963–964.

A journal article with 2 authors

Neufeld, P., Scheck, B., 2010. Making forensic science more scientific. Nature 464, 351.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scholey, J.M., Brust-Mascher, I., Mogilner, A., 2003. Cell division. Nature 422, 746–752.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schwab, S.R., Li, K.C., Kang, C., Shastri, N., 2003. Constitutive display of cryptic translation products by MHC class I molecules. Science 301, 1367–1371.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, R., 2005. Rational Choice and Judgment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Schwenker, F., Marinai, S. (Eds.), 2006. Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition: Second IAPR Workshop, ANNPR 2006, Ulm, Germany, August 31-September 2, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ruivo, P., Oliveira, T., Neto, M., 2012. ERP Post-adoption: Use and Value – An Empirical Study on Portuguese SMEs, in: Rahman, H., Mesquita, A., Ramos, I., Pernici, B. (Eds.), Knowledge and Technologies in Innovative Information Systems: 7th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, MCIS 2012, Guimaraes, Portugal, September 8-10, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 67–81.

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 Systems.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. China Launches World’s First Quantum Communications Satellite [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/china-launches-world-first-quantum-satellite/ (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, 2010. Space Acquisitions: Challenges in Commercializing Technologies Developed under the Small Business Innovation Research Program (No. GAO-11-21). 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

Vento-Wilson, M., 2012. The role of the speech-language pathologist and augmentative and alternative communication with acute care patients with severe communication impairments (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

Sisario, B., 2017. One Direction Ties A Beatles Record. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chambers, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Chambers, 2009; Neufeld and Scheck, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Neufeld and Scheck, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Schwab et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agricultural Systems
Abbreviation	Agric. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0308-521X
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Animal Science and Zoology