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

Steig, E.J. Paleoclimate. No Two Latitudes Alike. Science 2001, 293, 2015–2016.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coura, J.R.; Viñas, P.A. Chagas Disease: A New Worldwide Challenge. Nature 2010, 465, S6-7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, T.-T.; Tseng, S.C.; Lavker, R.M. Location of Corneal Epithelial Stem Cells. Nature 2010, 463, E10-1; discussion E11.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, G.; Wu, H.; Li, G.; Huang, Q.; Yang, C.; Huang, F.; Liao, F.; Lin, J. New High T(c) Multiferroics KBiFe₂O₅ with Narrow Band Gap and Promising Photovoltaic Effect. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1265.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stahl, S.; Stenson, C. Introduction to Topology and Geometry; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013; ISBN 9781118545904.

An edited book

Tveito, A. Elements of Scientific Computing; Langtangen, H.P., Nielsen, B.F., Cai, X., Eds.; Texts in Computational Science and Engineering; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; Vol. 7; ISBN 9783642112980.

A chapter in an edited book

Duarte, E. The Way of Lao-Tzu. In Being and Learning: A Poetic Phenomenology of Education; Duarte, E.M., Ed.; SensePublishers: Rotterdam, 2012; pp. 45–67 ISBN 9789460919480.

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. California Moves to Ban Religious and Personal Vaccine Exemptions Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/california-moves-ban-religious-and-personal-vaccine-exemptions/ (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 Agricultural Attache Role Overseas: What He Does and How He Can Be More Effective for the United States; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1975;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pantallion, A.S. A Parallel Comparison of Views Regarding Student Preparation for Introductory College Chemistry. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2015.

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

MacFARQUHAR, N. A Developer and Kremlin Fixer With a Web of Trump Contacts. New York Times 2017, 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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