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

Heckel, D.G. Ecology. Insecticide Resistance after Silent Spring. Science 2012, 337, 1612–1614.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hunter, C.A.; Mayers, P.C. Knot Tied around an Octahedral Metal Centre. Nature 2001, 411, 763.

A journal article with 3 authors

Abdenur, R.; Palmer, L.; Milhollin, G. Brazil’s Nuclear Activities. Science 2005, 307, 847–851.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Han, D.-S.; Vogel, A.; Jung, H.; Lee, K.-S.; Weigand, M.; Stoll, H.; Schütz, G.; Fischer, P.; Meier, G.; Kim, S.-K. Wave Modes of Collective Vortex Gyration in Dipolar-Coupled-Dot-Array Magnonic Crystals. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 2262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paret, D. Design Constraints for NFC Devices; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2016; ISBN 9781119292197.

An edited book

Chile in Transition: Prospects and Challenges for Latin America’s Forerunner of Development; Benedikter, R., Siepmann, K., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; ISBN 9783319179506.

A chapter in an edited book

Tari, Z.; Phan, A.K.A.; Jayasinghe, M.; Abhaya, V.G. The Use of Similarity & Multicast Protocols to Improve Performance. In On the Performance of Web Services; Phan, A.K.A., Jayasinghe, M., Abhaya, V.G., Eds.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2011; pp. 59–104 ISBN 9781461419297.

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

Luntz, S. Youngest Class Members At Greatest Risk Of ADHD Over-Diagnosis Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/youngest-class-members-at-greatest-risk-of-adhd-overdiagnosis/ (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 Information Technology: SBA Needs to Strengthen Oversight of Its Loan Management and Accounting System Modernization; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2012;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Berkowitz, E.S. Some Novel Phenomena at High Density. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD, 2013.

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

Hui, M. In Organic-Hungry Hong Kong, Corn as High as an Elevator’s Climb. New York Times 2012, A6.

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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