How to format your references using the Annals of Agrarian Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Agrarian Science. 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

[1]

M. Baker, Animal models: inside the minds of mice and men, Nature 475 (2011) 123–128.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Bilham, P. England, Plateau “pop-up” in the great 1897 Assam earthquake, Nature 410 (2001) 806–809.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Kagawa, K. Miyagawa, K. Kanoda, Unconventional critical behaviour in a quasi-two-dimensional organic conductor, Nature 436 (2005) 534–537.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.R. Soares, A.P.A. Souza, D.B. Prates, C.I. de Oliveira, M. Barral-Netto, J.C. Miranda, A. Barral, Seroconversion of sentinel chickens as a biomarker for monitoring exposure to visceral leishmaniasis, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2352.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.A. Fryirs, G.J. Brierley, Geomorphic Analysis of River Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

A. Haller, G. Huang, Z. Huang, H.-Y. Paik, Q.Z. Sheng, eds., Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2011 and 2012 Workshops: Combined WISE 2011 and WISE 2012 Workshops, Sydney Australia, October 12-14, 2011 and Paphos, Cyprus, November 28-30, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Petersson, K. Vamling, Vanished in the Haze: White Elephants, Environmental Degradation and Circassian Marginalization in Post-Olympics Sochi, in: A. Makarychev, A. Yatsyk (Eds.), Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016: pp. 59–76.

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 Annals of Agrarian Science.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, The Most Influential Scientist You May Never Have Heard Of, IFLScience (2014).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Relevance of GAO Report, “Improvements Needed in DOE’s Efforts To Develop a Financial Reporting System,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Vincent, Viewing Dissociative Identity Disorder through a Jungian lens, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2010.

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

[1]

K. Crow, UPPER WEST SIDE, New York Times (2001) 145.

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	Annals of Agrarian Science
Abbreviation	Ann. Agrar. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1512-1887
Scope