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

Frenkel, D., 2002. Colloidal systems. Playing tricks with designer “atoms.” Science 296, 65–66.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aitken, R.J., Marshall Graves, J.A., 2002. The future of sex. Nature 415, 963.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vander Heiden, M.G., Cantley, L.C., Thompson, C.B., 2009. Understanding the Warburg effect: the metabolic requirements of cell proliferation. Science 324, 1029–1033.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jin, F., Zeng, X., Liu, J., Jin, Y., Wang, L., Zhong, H., Yao, G., Huo, Z., 2014. Highly efficient and autocatalytic H2₂ dissociation for CO₂ reduction into formic acid with zinc. Sci. Rep. 4, 4503.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barrett-Lennard, G.T., 2014. The Relationship Inventory. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Dronamraju, K.R., 2006. Malaria: Genetic and Evolutionary Aspects, Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Poizat, P., Royer, J.-C., Salaün, G., 2006. Bounded Analysis and Decomposition for Behavioural Descriptions of Components, in: Gorrieri, R., Wehrheim, H. (Eds.), Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems: 8th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FMOODS 2006, Bologna, Italy, June 14-16, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–47.

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, D., 2015. ENORMOUS Tiger Shark Caught Off Australian Coast [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/enormous-tiger-shark-caught-australian-coast/ (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, 2014. Alternative Jet Fuels: Federal Activities Support Development and Usage, but Long-term Commercial Viability Hinges on Market Factors (No. GAO-14-407). 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

Gelbart, O., 2008. Integrated hardware/software approaches to software security for embedded systems (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Saslow, L., 2006. For $37.5 Million, the Piano Man’s Estate. New York Times LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Frenkel, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Aitken and Marshall Graves, 2002; Frenkel, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Aitken and Marshall Graves, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Jin et al., 2014)

About the journal

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

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