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

O’Malley BW. 2006. Molecular biology. Little molecules with big goals. Science. 313(5794):1749–1750.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fields S, Johnston M. 2005. Cell biology. Whither model organism research? Science. 307(5717):1885–1886.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bradley P, Misura KMS, Baker D. 2005. Toward high-resolution de novo structure prediction for small proteins. Science. 309(5742):1868–1871.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Weixlbaumer A, Jin H, Neubauer C, Voorhees RM, Petry S, Kelley AC, Ramakrishnan V. 2008. Insights into translational termination from the structure of RF2 bound to the ribosome. Science. 322(5903):953–956.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartlett D, Moody S, Kindersley K. 2010. Dyslexia in the Workplace. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gutbrod R. 2012. The Software Dilemma: Balancing Creativity and Control on the Path to Sustainable Software. Wiele C, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rothe A. 2016. Popular Trauma Culture: The Pain of Others Between Holocaust Tropes and Kitsch-Sentimental Melodrama. In: Ataria Y, Gurevitz D, Pedaya H, Neria Y, editors. Interdisciplinary Handbook of Trauma and Culture. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 51–66.

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. Dark Matter Is Killing Galaxies That Enter The Coma Cluster. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/dead-galaxies-might-be-explained-dark-matter-cushions/

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. 2015. Telecommunications Relay Service: FCC Should Strengthen Its Management of Program to Assist Persons with Hearing or Speech Disabilities. 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

Colchero Dorado R. 2008. Recovering memory in Jordi Soler’s “Los rojos de ultramar” [Doctoral dissertation]. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Kenigsberg B. 2017. Film Series. New York Times.:C31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (O’Malley 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Fields and Johnston 2005; O’Malley 2006).

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

Two authors: (Fields and Johnston 2005)
Three or more authors: (Weixlbaumer et al. 2008)

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