How to format your references using the Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 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	Download the output style file
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

Bray, D., 2003. Molecular networks: the top-down view. Science 301, 1864–1865.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rivkin, A.S., Emery, J.P., 2010. Detection of ice and organics on an asteroidal surface. Nature 464, 1322–1323.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morales, R., Di Matteo, T., Aste, T., 2014. Dependency structure and scaling properties of financial time series are related. Sci. Rep. 4, 4589.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Munshi, N., Agalioti, T., Lomvardas, S., Merika, M., Chen, G., Thanos, D., 2001. Coordination of a transcriptional switch by HMGI(Y) acetylation. Science 293, 1133–1136.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soustelle, M., 2011. An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Montanari, F., 2015. Risk Regulation in Non-Animal Food Imports: The European Union Approach, SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Pavlova, M., Lomakina, T., 2016. Sustainable Development as a World-view: Implications for Education, in: Lam, C.-M., Park, J. (Eds.), Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Education in the Asia-Pacific Region, Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects. Springer, Singapore, pp. 37–50.

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, Ecosystems and Environment.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. When Did We First Start Controlling Fire? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/when-did-we-first-start-controlling-fire/ (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, 1997. FASAB Volume 1 Original Statements: Statements of Federal Financial Accounting Concepts and Standards (No. AIMD-21.1.1). 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

Oh, Y., 2006. Prediction of Steady State Response in Dynamic Mode Atomic Force Microscopy and Its Applications in Nano-metrology (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

Santora, M., Baker, A.L., 2017. Despite Strict Gun Law, Doctor Was Able to Buy Assault Rifle. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bray, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Bray, 2003; Rivkin and Emery, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Rivkin and Emery, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Munshi et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
Abbreviation	Agric. Ecosyst. Environ.
ISSN (print)	0167-8809
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Animal Science and Zoology Ecology