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

Smaglik P (2003) Out in the cold. Nature 421:95

A journal article with 2 authors

Feuillet C, Eversole K (2009) Plant science. Solving the maze. Science 326:1071–1072

A journal article with 3 authors

Takeuchi Y, Yoshizaki G, Takeuchi T (2004) Biotechnology: surrogate broodstock produces salmonids. Nature 430:629–630

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Svensen H, Planke S, Malthe-Sørenssen A, et al (2004) Release of methane from a volcanic basin as a mechanism for initial Eocene global warming. Nature 429:542–545

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Camarillo G, García-Martín MA (2006) The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Ahmad SI (2006) Molecular Mechanisms of Fanconi Anemia. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Alapati SR, Kuhn D, Padfield B (2011) Minimizing System Contention. In: Kuhn D, Padfield B (eds) Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 147–183

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

Luntz S (2016) Gut Microbes Control Parkinson’s Disease In Mice. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gut-microbes-control-parkinsons-disease-in-mice/. 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 (1987) [Comments on Proposed Oregon Purchase of Rail Line With Oil Overcharge Settlement]. 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

Aloe-Chase ST (2008) Family member perspectives on collaboration: An exploratory study. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Kolomatsky M (2017) Career Over, Where to Move? New York Times RE2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2003; Feuillet and Eversole 2009).

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

Two authors: (Feuillet and Eversole 2009)
Three or more authors: (Svensen et al. 2004)

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