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

Macilwain, C. Green Light for Plans to Sell off US Helium Reserve. Nature 2000, 405, 496.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bravo-Abad, J.; Soljacić, M. Physics. A Unified Picture of Laser Physics. Science 2008, 320, 623–624.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takahashi, J.S.; Shimomura, K.; Kumar, V. Searching for Genes Underlying Behavior: Lessons from Circadian Rhythms. Science 2008, 322, 909–912.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Maira, S.M.; Galetic, I.; Brazil, D.P.; Kaech, S.; Ingley, E.; Thelen, M.; Hemmings, B.A. Carboxyl-Terminal Modulator Protein (CTMP), a Negative Regulator of PKB/Akt and v-Akt at the Plasma Membrane. Science 2001, 294, 374–380.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scanlan, E.A. Fundraising Consultants; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2009; ISBN 9781118386859.

An edited book

Experimental Mechanics on Emerging Energy Systems and Materials, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics; Proulx, T., Ed.; Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series; Springer: New York, NY, 2011; ISBN 9781441994936.

A chapter in an edited book

Periakaruppan, R.; Nadarajan, R. Automatic Clustering of Research Articles Using Domain Ontology and Fuzzy Logic. In Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2013 Workshops: USL 2013, IWSLL 2013, KMEL 2013, IWCWL 2013, WIL 2013, and IWEEC 2013, Kenting, Taiwan, October 6-9, 2013, Revised Selected Papers; Chiu, D.K.W., Wang, M., Popescu, E., Li, Q., Lau, R., Shih, T.K., Yang, C.-S., Sampson, D.G., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015; pp. 42–51 ISBN 9783662463147.

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

Andrew, E. New Treasures Recovered From Ancient Antikythera Shipwreck Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-ancient-treasures-recovered-antikythera-shipwreck/ (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 Information Technology: Library of Congress Needs to Implement Recommendations to Address Management Weaknesses; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2015;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kulavuz-Onal, D. English Language Teachers’ Learning to Teach with Technology through Participation in an Online Community of Practice: A Netnography of Webheads in Action. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida: Tampa, FL, 2013.

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

Burghardt, L.F. Mutiny in the Harbor: One Ship Too Many. New York Times 2006, 14NJ6.

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