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

Messenger, S., 2000. Identification of molecular-cloud material in interplanetary dust particles. Nature 404, 968–971.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schappacher, M., Deffieux, A., 2008. Synthesis of macrocyclic copolymer brushes and their self-assembly into supramolecular tubes. Science 319, 1512–1515.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hasnaoui, A., Van Swygenhoven, H., Derlet, P.M., 2003. Dimples on nanocrystalline fracture surfaces as evidence for shear plane formation. Science 300, 1550–1552.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

O’Brien, J.L., Pryde, G.J., White, A.G., Ralph, T.C., Branning, D., 2003. Demonstration of an all-optical quantum controlled-NOT gate. Nature 426, 264–267.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bliesner, D.M., 2006. Establishing a CGMP Laboratory Audit System. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hossain, E. (Ed.), 2009. Heterogeneous Wireless Access Networks: Architectures and Protocols. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Herfeld, C., Schaubroeck, K., 2013. The Importance of Commitment for Morality: How Harry Frankfurt’s Concept of Care Contributes to Rational Choice Theory, in: Musschenga, B., van Harskamp, A. (Eds.), What Makes Us Moral? On the Capacities and Conditions for Being Moral, Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 51–72.

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., 2014. Could Megalodon Still Live In The Deep Ocean? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/could-megalodon-still-live-deep-ocean/ (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, 2001. National Laboratories: Better Performance Reporting Could Aid Oversight of Laboratory-Directed R&D Program (No. GAO-01-927). 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

Perantoni, E.J., 2010. Course design based on the Kolb learning style as it relates to student success in online classes (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Asked to Switch Positions, Mets’ Cabrera Asks to Switch Teams. New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Messenger, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Messenger, 2000; Schappacher and Deffieux, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Schappacher and Deffieux, 2008)
Three or more authors: (O’Brien et al., 2003)

About the journal

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