How to format your references using the Agronomy citation style

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

Millis, A.J. Physics. Gaps and Our Understanding. Science 2006, 314, 1888–1889.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gong, F.; Yanofsky, C. Instruction of Translating Ribosome by Nascent Peptide. Science 2002, 297, 1864–1867.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stollewerk, A.; Schoppmeier, M.; Damen, W.G.M. Involvement of Notch and Delta Genes in Spider Segmentation. Nature 2003, 423, 863–865.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Matthey, D.; Wang, J.G.; Wendt, S.; Matthiesen, J.; Schaub, R.; Laegsgaard, E.; Hammer, B.; Besenbacher, F. Enhanced Bonding of Gold Nanoparticles on Oxidized TiO2(110). Science 2007, 315, 1692–1696.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Verma, J.P. Sports Research with Analytical Solution Using SPSS®; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2016; ISBN 9781119206767.

An edited book

Neurovascular Events After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Towards Experimental and Clinical Standardisation; Fandino, J., Marbacher, S., Fathi, A.-R., Muroi, C., Keller, E., Eds.; Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; Vol. 120; ISBN 9783319049809.

A chapter in an edited book

Lucena, C.; Sarraipa, J.; Jardim-Goncalves, R. A Knowledge Management Framework to Support Online Communities Creation. In Technological Innovation for Collective Awareness Systems: 5th IFIP WG 5.5/SOCOLNET Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems, DoCEIS 2014, Costa de Caparica, Portugal, April 7-9, 2014. Proceedings; Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Barrento, N.S., Mendonça, R., Eds.; IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; pp. 29–36 ISBN 9783642547331.

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 Agronomy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. What Does Australia’s New 2030 Climate Target Mean For The Local Coal Industry? Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-does-australia-s-new-2030-climate-target-mean-local-coal-industry/ (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 Follow-up National Survey of Cable Television Rates and Services; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1990;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garcia-Benitez, C. Support Program to Facilitate Achievement for Emancipated Foster Youth to Succeed in College. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

Greenhouse, L. Justices Shield Medical Devices From Lawsuits. New York Times 2008, A1.

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	Agronomy
Abbreviation	Agronomy (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2073-4395
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