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

Dabby, Diana S. 2008. Music theory. Creating musical variation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320: 62–63.

A journal article with 2 authors

Atencia, Javier, and David J. Beebe. 2005. Controlled microfluidic interfaces. Nature 437: 648–655.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haerizadeh, Farzad, Mohan B. Singh, and Prem L. Bhalla. 2006. Transcriptional repression distinguishes somatic from germ cell lineages in a plant. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313: 496–499.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ueda, M., Y. Sako, T. Tanaka, P. Devreotes, and T. Yanagida. 2001. Single-molecule analysis of chemotactic signaling in Dictyostelium cells. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294: 864–867.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blanchet, Gérard, and Maurice Charbit. 2015. Digital Signal and Image Processing Using MATLAB®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

O’Neill, Luke A. J., and Elizabeth Brint, ed. 2005. Toll-like Receptors in Inflammation. Progress in Inflammation Research. Basel: Birkhäuser.

A chapter in an edited book

Gustafsson, Janne, Bert De Reyck, Zeger Degraeve, and Ahti Salo. 2011. Valuation of Risky Projects and Illiquid Investments Using Portfolio Selection Models. In Portfolio Decision Analysis: Improved Methods for Resource Allocation, ed. Ahti Salo, Jeffrey Keisler, and Alec Morton, 79–105. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. 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

Davis, Josh. 2015. Scientists Fed Volunteers 6,000 Calories For Science. IFLScience. IFLScience. September 10.

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. 2001. Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. GAO-01-258. 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

Rich, Derek W. 2009. Examining the relationship of values-based management in performance evaluations. Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral 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

Kishkovsky, Sophia. 2012. Church Hints It May Serve As Mediator In Russia. New York Times, January 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dabby 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Atencia and Beebe 2005; Dabby 2008).

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

Two authors: (Atencia and Beebe 2005)
Three or more authors: (Ueda et al. 2001)

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