How to format your references using the Agriculture and Natural Resources citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Agriculture and Natural Resources. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Macrakis, K., 2009. Science and the Stasi. Nature 461, 594–595.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown, E., Jaeger, H.M., 2011. Materials science. Through thick and thin. Science 333, 1230–1231.

A journal article with 3 authors

Strassmann, J.E., Zhu, Y., Queller, D.C., 2000. Altruism and social cheating in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Nature 408, 965–967.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bakr, W.S., Gillen, J.I., Peng, A., Fölling, S., Greiner, M., 2009. A quantum gas microscope for detecting single atoms in a Hubbard-regime optical lattice. Nature 462, 74–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Terré, M., Pischella, M., Vivier, E., 2013. Wireless Telecommunication Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Chio, C.D., Agapitos, A., Cagnoni, S., Cotta, C., Vega, F.F. de, Caro, G.A.D., Drechsler, R., Ekárt, A., Esparcia-Alcázar, A.I., Farooq, M., Langdon, W.B., Merelo-Guervós, J.J., Preuss, M., Richter, H., Silva, S., Simões, A., Squillero, G., Tarantino, E., Tettamanzi, A.G.B., Togelius, J., Urquhart, N., Uyar, A.Ş., Yannakakis, G.N. (Eds.), 2012. Applications of Evolutionary Computation: EvoApplications 2012: EvoCOMNET, EvoCOMPLEX, EvoFIN, EvoGAMES, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoNUM, EvoPAR, EvoRISK, EvoSTIM, and EvoSTOC, Málaga, Spain, April 11-13, 2012, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hense, B.A., Kuttler, C., Müller, J., 2015. Functionality of Autoinducer Systems in Complex Environments, in: Hagen, S.J. (Ed.), The Physical Basis of Bacterial Quorum Communication, Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 83–103.

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 Natural Resources.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Ancient Viruses Resurrected To Improve Gene Therapy [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ancient-viruses-resurrected-improve-gene-therapy/ (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, 1974. Problems Affecting Operations at the St. Louis Postal Data Center (No. B-180235). 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

Black, A.M., 2006. Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Ohio Statewide Agricultural Leadership Program (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Poniewozik, J., 2017. Will He Let Loose the Hounds? New York Times C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macrakis, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Brown and Jaeger, 2011; Macrakis, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Brown and Jaeger, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Bakr et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agriculture and Natural Resources
Abbreviation	Agric. Nat. Resour.
ISSN (print)	2452-316X
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