How to format your references using the Agriculture citation style

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

Marti, K. Planetary Science. Sampling the Sun. Science 2007, 318, 401–402.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ogata, H.; Claverie, J.-M. Microbiology. How to Infect a Mimivirus. Science 2008, 321, 1305–1306.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaeberlein, M.; Rabinovitch, P.S.; Martin, G.M. Healthy Aging: The Ultimate Preventative Medicine. Science 2015, 350, 1191–1193.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Volkman, B.F.; Lipson, D.; Wemmer, D.E.; Kern, D. Two-State Allosteric Behavior in a Single-Domain Signaling Protein. Science 2001, 291, 2429–2433.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, D.A. Interpreting Land Records; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2014; ISBN 9781118989326.

An edited book

Banasiak, J. Methods of Small Parameter in Mathematical Biology; Lachowicz, M., Ed.; Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; ISBN 9783319051390.

A chapter in an edited book

Dana, R.H. Transitions in Psychotherapy, Clinical Diagnosis, and Assessment. In Cultural Competency Training in a Global Society; Dana, R.H., Allen, J., Eds.; International and Cultural Psychology; Springer: New York, NY, 2009; pp. 79–94 ISBN 9780387798219.

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.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. Young Girl Has Tapeworm Cyst Half The Size Of Her Brain Removed Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/young-girl-has-tapeworm-cyst-half-the-size-of-her-brain-removed/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Satellite Control Capabilities: National Policy Could Help Consolidation and Cost Savings; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1996;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thiagarajan, T.T. A Simple and Effective Peak-To-Average Power Ratio Reduction Approach Based on Iterative Companding Transform and Filtering Framework of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Signal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

David Goodman, J. Mayor Fills Key Position in City’s Effort to Combat Rise in Homelessness. New York Times 2016, A21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Agriculture
ISSN (online)	2077-0472
Scope