How to format your references using the Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Agronomy and Soil 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	Download the output style file
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

Dalton R. 2003. Legal row looms for gene-map firm. Nature. 423(6939):470.

A journal article with 2 authors

Takano Y, Ukezono M. 2014. An experimental task to examine the mirror system in rats. Sci Rep. 4:6652.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huffard CL, Boneka F, Full RJ. 2005. Underwater bipedal locomotion by octopuses in disguise. Science. 307(5717):1927.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Pietrzak B, Sharma V, Wasalathanthri D, Ellwanger JH, Sanganyado E, Buschke F, Beardsley FR, Agarwal D, Jensen MM, Easun TL, et al. 2018. Nurturing connections to the environment. Science. 362(6417):886–888.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gottlieb I. 2009. Next Generation Excel. 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Talent JA, editor. 2012. Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Vadicherla T, Saravanan D. 2014. Textiles and Apparel Development Using Recycled and Reclaimed Fibers. In: Muthu SS, editor. Roadmap to Sustainable Textiles and Clothing: Eco-friendly Raw Materials, Technologies, and Processing Methods. Singapore: Springer; p. 139–160.

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 Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Strange Tale Of Fish Eye Evolution Shows How New Species Could Be Born. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/strange-tale-fish-eye-evolution-shows-how-new-species-could-be-born-0/

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. 2007. Performance and Accountability: Transportation Challenges Facing Congress and the Department of Transportation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tapal SS. 2012. Is the fourth generation of Six Sigma an effective professional development model in K-12 education? [Doctoral dissertation]. Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Cooper M. 2017. Venezuela Cancels Dudamel’s Tour. New York Times.:C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton 2003; Takano and Ukezono 2014).

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

Two authors: (Takano and Ukezono 2014)
Three or more authors: (Pietrzak et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science
Abbreviation	Arch. Acker Pflanzenbau Bodenkd.
ISSN (print)	0365-0340
ISSN (online)	1476-3567
Scope	Agronomy and Crop Science Soil Science