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

Callaway, E., 2015. Computers read the fossil record. Nature 523, 115–116.

A journal article with 2 authors

Joughin, I., Tulaczyk, S., 2002. Positive mass balance of the Ross Ice Streams, West Antarctica. Science 295, 476–480.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shi, Y., Evans, J.E., Rock, K.L., 2003. Molecular identification of a danger signal that alerts the immune system to dying cells. Nature 425, 516–521.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, H., Xu, H., Zhou, Y., Zhang, J., Long, C., Li, S., Chen, S., Zhou, J.-M., Shao, F., 2007. The phosphothreonine lyase activity of a bacterial type III effector family. Science 315, 1000–1003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stephans, R.A., 2004. System Safety for the 21 st Century. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ho, Y.-C., 2007. Ordinal Optimization: Soft Optimization for Hard Problems. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Chatterjee, S., Menezes, A., Ustaoglu, B., 2010. Combined Security Analysis of the One- and Three-Pass Unified Model Key Agreement Protocols, in: Gong, G., Gupta, K.C. (Eds.), Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2010: 11th International Conference on Cryptology in India, Hyderabad, India, December 12-15, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 49–68.

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

Hale, T., 2016. The Biggest Coral Bleaching Event In History Will Hit The US Coral Reefs Hard [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1976. Standard Budget Classifications--Proposed Functions and Subfunctions (No. PAD-76-49). 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

Holler, J.C., 2015. A phenomenological case study of finding meaning through the developmental nature of a doctoral program in organization change (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Wagner, J., 2017. Dodgers’ Turner Delivers Decisive Final Blow in a Battle of Bullpens. New York Times D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Callaway, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Callaway, 2015; Joughin and Tulaczyk, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Joughin and Tulaczyk, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2007)

About the journal

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