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

Hartwig, J.F., 2008. Carbon-heteroatom bond formation catalysed by organometallic complexes. Nature 455, 314–322.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gaensler, B.M., Frail, D.A., 2000. A large age for the pulsar B1757-24 from an upper limit on its proper motion. Nature 406, 158–160.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang, L., Garbe, D.S., Bashaw, G.J., 2009. A frazzled/DCC-dependent transcriptional switch regulates midline axon guidance. Science 324, 944–947.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Homes, C.C., Vogt, T., Shapiro, S.M., Wakimoto, S., Ramirez, A.P., 2001. Optical response of high-dielectric-constant perovskite-related oxide. Science 293, 673–676.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kent, J., 2017. ADA in Details. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rachev, S.T., 2013. The Methods of Distances in the Theory of Probability and Statistics. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Van Dyke Parunak, H., 2011. Pheromones, Probabilities, and Multiple Futures, in: Bosse, T., Geller, A., Jonker, C.M. (Eds.), Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XI: International Workshop, MABS 2010, Toronto, Canada, May 11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 44–60.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Turtle Extinction Event Bodes Ill For Our Waterways [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/turtle-extinction-event-bodes-ill-our-waterways/ (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, 2005. Questions for the Record Related to Amtrak’s Food and Beverage Service (No. GAO-05-893R). 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

Greene, L., 2017. Perceptions Of Women Leaders In A Catholic Archdiocese: A Phenomenological Study (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2005. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: U.S. Rejects Allegations Of Spying. New York Times A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hartwig, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Gaensler and Frail, 2000; Hartwig, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Gaensler and Frail, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Homes et al., 2001)

About the journal

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