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]

P. Artaxo, Break down boundaries in climate research, Nature. 481 (2012) 239.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.B. Ramocki, H.Y. Zoghbi, Failure of neuronal homeostasis results in common neuropsychiatric phenotypes, Nature. 455 (2008) 912–918.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B.M. Jakosky, R.M. Haberle, R.E. Arvidson, Planetary science. The changing picture of volatiles and climate on Mars, Science. 310 (2005) 1439–1440.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Stickgold, J.A. Hobson, R. Fosse, M. Fosse, Sleep, learning, and dreams: off-line memory reprocessing, Science. 294 (2001) 1052–1057.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L.N. Molino Sr., Emergency Incident Management Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

W. Quan, INS/CNS/GNSS Integrated Navigation Technology, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Dacewicz, K. Nowak, E. Szelag, Temporal Information Processing and Language Skills in Children with Specific Language Impairment, in: A. Esposito, M. Faundez-Zanuy, A.M. Esposito, G. Cordasco, T. Drugman, J. Solé-Casals, F.C. Morabito (Eds.), Recent Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 45–52.

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]

A. Carpineti, Where Is Planet Nine?, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-further-reduce-search-area-planet-nine/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, FAA Procurement: Competition for Major Data-Processing Project Was Unjustifiably Limited, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y.J. Hwang, Three Essays on Economics and Risk Perception, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2006.

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]

B. Brantley, Activists Haunted by Their K.G.B. Ordeal, New York Times. (2017) C5.

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

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