How to format your references using the Agronomy for Sustainable Development citation style

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

Nadeau JH (2003) Genetics. Modifying the message. Science 301:927–928

A journal article with 2 authors

Hauser MD, Bever T (2008) Behavior. A biolinguistic agenda. Science 322:1057–1059

A journal article with 3 authors

D’Hondt S, Rutherford S, Spivack AJ (2002) Metabolic activity of subsurface life in deep-sea sediments. Science 295:2067–2070

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Luo Z, Zhang Q, Oderaotoshi Y, Curran DP (2001) Fluorous mixture synthesis: a fluorous-tagging strategy for the synthesis and separation of mixtures of organic compounds. Science 291:1766–1769

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davison M (2011) Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Slice DE (ed) (2005) Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Joyce RA (2008) Critical Histories of Archaeological Practice: Latin American and North American Interpretations in a Honduran Context. In: Habu J, Fawcett C, Matsunaga JM (eds) Evaluating Multiple Narratives: Beyond Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist Archaeologies. Springer, New York, NY, pp 56–68

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 for Sustainable Development.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Black Holes Alone Can’t Explain Dark Matter. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/black-holes-alone-can-t-explain-dark-matter/. 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 (1979) FCC’s Decision To Consolidate Licensing Division in Gettysburg, Pa. Was Made Without Adequate Analysis. 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

Escobedo K (2017) Sana Mente Center. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Sisario B (2017) Licensing Accord Eases Spotify’s Path to Going Public. New York Times B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nadeau 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Nadeau 2003; Hauser and Bever 2008).

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

Two authors: (Hauser and Bever 2008)
Three or more authors: (Luo et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Abbreviation	Agron. Sustain. Dev.
ISSN (print)	1774-0746
ISSN (online)	1773-0155
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Environmental Engineering