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

Schmidt, B., 2005. Astronomy. The link between supernovae and gamma ray bursts. Science 308, 1265–1266.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jean-Baptiste, P., Fourré, E., 2004. Arctic Ocean: hydrothermal activity on Gakkel Ridge. Nature 428, 36.

A journal article with 3 authors

Komarova, N.L., Levy, D.N., Wodarz, D., 2013. Synaptic transmission and the susceptibility of HIV infection to anti-viral drugs. Sci. Rep. 3, 2103.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Voiculescu, O., Bertocchini, F., Wolpert, L., Keller, R.E., Stern, C.D., 2007. The amniote primitive streak is defined by epithelial cell intercalation before gastrulation. Nature 449, 1049–1052.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maksoud, M.A., 2017. Quick Reference to Dental Implant Surgery. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ferro, N. (Ed.), 2014. Bridging Between Information Retrieval and Databases: PROMISE Winter School 2013, Bressanone, Italy, February 4-8, 2013. Revised Tutorial Lectures, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Wildgen, W., 2015. The Cultural Individuation of Human Language Capacity and the Morphogenesis of Basic Argument-Schemata, in: Sarti, A., Montanari, F., Galofaro, F. (Eds.), Morphogenesis and Individuation, Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 93–110.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Incredible New Photos Of Pluto Show Blue Skies And Water Ice [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/blue-haze-and-water-ice-pluto/ (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. Federal Research and Development: Contributions to and Results of the Small Business Technology Transfer Program (No. GAO-01-867T). 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

Sanchez, Y., 2012. Effectiveness of parent-child interaction therapy for Latino families: A secondary analysis of existing data (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Hubbard, B., Sanger, D.E., 2016. 3 Nations Meet for Syria Talks, Excluding U.S. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schmidt, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Jean-Baptiste and Fourré, 2004; Schmidt, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Jean-Baptiste and Fourré, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Voiculescu et al., 2007)

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