How to format your references using the Annals of Agricultural Sciences citation style

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

Burness, G.P., 2002. Ecology. Elephants, mice, and red herrings. Science 296, 1245–1247.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fyodorov, D.V., Kadonaga, J.T., 2002. Dynamics of ATP-dependent chromatin assembly by ACF. Nature 418, 897–900.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sogo, J.M., Lopes, M., Foiani, M., 2002. Fork reversal and ssDNA accumulation at stalled replication forks owing to checkpoint defects. Science 297, 599–602.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yasutomo, K., Doyle, C., Miele, L., Fuchs, C., Germain, R.N., 2000. The duration of antigen receptor signalling determines CD4+ versus CD8+ T-cell lineage fate. Nature 404, 506–510.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bitton, G., 2010. Wastewater Microbiology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Stahl, G. (Ed.), 2009. Studying Virtual Math Teams, Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Series. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Bai, Y., Han, X., Prince, J.L., 2015. Geometric Deformable Models, in: Paragios, N., Duncan, J., Ayache, N. (Eds.), Handbook of Biomedical Imaging: Methodologies and Clinical Research. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 83–104.

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 Agricultural Sciences.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. 211 New Species Discovered In The Himalayas [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sneezing-monkeys-walking-fish-and-209-new-species-discovered-himalayas/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1973. Selection and Use of Contractor for Development of a Management Information System for the Atomic Energy Commission (No. B-164105). 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

Burns, D., 2017. Measuring the Outcome of At-Risk Students on Biology Standardized Tests When Using Different Instructional Strategies (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Kelly, D., 2001. The A List. New York Times 713.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burness, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Burness, 2002; Fyodorov and Kadonaga, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Fyodorov and Kadonaga, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Yasutomo et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Agricultural Sciences
Abbreviation	Ann. Agric. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0570-1783
Scope