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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Seewald JS (2003) Organic-inorganic interactions in petroleum-producing sedimentary basins. Nature 426:327–333

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheffield MEJ, Dombeck DA (2015) Calcium transient prevalence across the dendritic arbour predicts place field properties. Nature 517:200–204

A journal article with 3 authors

Couch FJ, Nathanson KL, Offit K (2014) Two decades after BRCA: setting paradigms in personalized cancer care and prevention. Science 343:1466–1470

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen K-C, Wu W-W, Liao C-N, et al (2008) Observation of atomic diffusion at twin-modified grain boundaries in copper. Science 321:1066–1069

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burrell DB (2011) Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Serra HA de A (2015) Design of Switched-Capacitor Filter Circuits using Low Gain Amplifiers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ordóñez A (2015) A New Set of Questions: ICT4D Research and Policy. In: Chib A, May J, Barrantes R (eds) Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South. Springer, Singapore, pp 63–82

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

Luntz S (2015) Scientists Find Traces Of Enormous Solar Storms That Once Hit The Earth. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/traces-giant-solar-storms-found/. 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) Drug Regulation: FDA’s Computer Systems Need To Be Better Managed. 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

Gros TR (2009) A templated agarose scaffold for axon guidance in the central and peripheral nervous system. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Powell M (2017) An Athlete of His Time, Painted as a Top Villain. New York Times B8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Seewald 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Seewald 2003; Sheffield and Dombeck 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sheffield and Dombeck 2015)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2008)

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