How to format your references using the AIMS Agriculture and Food citation style

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

Quirk T (2012) Writers should not fear jargon. Nature 487: 407.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richards TA, Gomes SL (2015) Protistology: How to build a microbial eye. Nature 523: 166–167.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pan B, Xiong Y, Steitz TA (2010) How the CCA-adding enzyme selects adenine over cytosine at position 76 of tRNA. Science 330: 937–940.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Falci G, Fazio R, Palma GM, et al. (2000) Detection of geometric phases in superconducting nanocircuits. Nature 407: 355–358.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruehli AE, Antonini G, Jiang L (2017) Circuit Oriented Electromagnetic Modeling Using the Peec Techniques, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gavrilovska L, Krco S, Milutinovic V, et al. (Eds.) (2011) Application and Multidisciplinary Aspects of Wireless Sensor Networks: Concepts, Integration, and Case Studies, London, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Aidos H, Fred A (2012) k-Nearest Neighbor Classification Using Dissimilarity Increments, In: Campilho A, Kamel M (Eds.), Image Analysis and Recognition: 9th International Conference, ICIAR 2012, Aveiro, Portugal, June 25-27, 2012. Proceedings, Part I, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 27–33.

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 AIMS Agriculture and Food.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) IFLScience, Croatian Court Upholds Vaccine Mandate, 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/croatian-court-upholds-vaccine-mandate/.

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 (1986) [Comments on NASA Agreement With Firm for Commercial Launch Services], Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Torres A (2013) An understanding of the first-generation community college student: A strengths and assets approach.

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

Cowley S, Silver-Greenberg J (2017) Lost Paperwork May Erase Student Debt for Tens of Thousands. New York Times 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	AIMS Agriculture and Food
ISSN (online)	2471-2086
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