How to format your references using the Agriculture and Human Values citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Agriculture and Human Values. 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

Weinstein, John N. 2008. Biochemistry. A postgenomic visual icon. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319: 1772–1773.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brodsky, Emily E., and Thorne Lay. 2014. Geophysics. Recognizing foreshocks from the 1 April 2014 Chile earthquake. Science (New York, N.Y.) 344: 700–702.

A journal article with 3 authors

West-Eberhard, Mary Jane, J. Andrew C. Smith, and Klaus Winter. 2011. Plant science. Photosynthesis, reorganized. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332: 311–312.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bates, Mark, Bo Huang, Graham T. Dempsey, and Xiaowei Zhuang. 2007. Multicolor super-resolution imaging with photo-switchable fluorescent probes. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317: 1749–1753.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daïan, Jean-François. 2014. Equilibrium and Transfer in Porous Media 3. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Satchell, Stephen, ed. 2016. Derivatives and Hedge Funds. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Siegel, Jerome. 2011. The Roles of Hypocretin/Orexin in Narcolepsy, Parkinson’s Disease, and Normal Behavior. In Narcolepsy: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment, ed. Christian R. Baumann, Claudio L. Bassetti, and Thomas E. Scammell, 37–45. New York, NY: Springer.

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 Agriculture and Human Values.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Setting Priorities For Environmental Research Is Daunting When The Questions Are So Huge. IFLScience. IFLScience. August 28.

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. 2014. Transportation for Older Adults: Measuring Results Could Help Determine If Coordination Efforts Improve Mobility. GAO-15-158. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Clark, Marjorie. 2011. How Charter School Teachers Act on Perceived Autonomy: A Qualitative Study of Curricular Decisions. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: George Washington 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

Koblin, John, and Christopher D. Shea. 2017. Outing of ‘Survivor’ Contestant That Set Off an Uproar Was Shot Months Ago. New York Times, April 13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weinstein 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Weinstein 2008; Brodsky and Lay 2014).

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

Two authors: (Brodsky and Lay 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bates et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agriculture and Human Values
Abbreviation	Agric. Human Values
ISSN (print)	0889-048X
ISSN (online)	1572-8366
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science