How to format your references using the Agroforestry Systems citation style

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

Nadis S (2000) The sky’s the limit as radio telescope array is approved. Nature 406:665–666

A journal article with 2 authors

Bossuyt F, Milinkovitch MC (2001) Amphibians as indicators of early tertiary “out-of-India” dispersal of vertebrates. Science 292:93–95

A journal article with 3 authors

Piana S, Reyhani M, Gale JD (2005) Simulating micrometre-scale crystal growth from solution. Nature 438:70–73

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Vashist SK, Marion Schneider E, Lam E, et al (2014) One-step antibody immobilization-based rapid and highly-sensitive sandwich ELISA procedure for potential in vitro diagnostics. Sci Rep 4:4407

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gardner S, Birley S (2010) Blogging for Dummies®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kotsis G, Spaniol O (eds) (2005) Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet: First International Workshop of the EURO-NGI Network of Excellence, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, June 7-9, 2004. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Schmauder S, Mishnaevsky L Jr (2008) Atomistic and Dislocation Modelling. In: Mishnaevsky L (ed) Micromechanics and Nanosimulation of Metals and Composites: Advanced Methods and Theoretical Concepts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 311–418

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 Agroforestry Systems.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2017) Asteroids Might Camouflage Themselves With Material From Elsewhere. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/asteroids-might-camouflage-themselves-with-material-from-elsewhere/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1986) Space Shuttle: NASA’s Procurement of Solid Rocket Booster Motors. 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

Ortiz JA (2014) New graduate nurses’ experiences of what accounts for their lack of professional confidence during their first year of practice. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Vecsey G (2010) A Script, or Woods’s Road to Recovery? New York Times B18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nadis 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Nadis 2000; Bossuyt and Milinkovitch 2001).

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

Two authors: (Bossuyt and Milinkovitch 2001)
Three or more authors: (Vashist et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agroforestry Systems
Abbreviation	Agrofor. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0167-4366
ISSN (online)	1572-9680
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Forestry