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

Renfrew C. 2009. Anthropology. Where bacteria and languages concur. Science. 323(5913):467–468.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu Z, Hoffman JE. 2014. Condensed-matter physics: Catching relativistic electrons. Nature. 513(7518):319–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morewedge CK, Huh YE, Vosgerau J. 2010. Thought for food: imagined consumption reduces actual consumption. Science. 330(6010):1530–1533.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Licciardi JM, Schaefer JM, Taggart JR, Lund DC. 2009. Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Peruvian Andes indicate northern climate linkages. Science. 325(5948):1677–1679.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Srivastava SP. 2014. Developments in Lubricant Technology. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Stadler M, Dersch P, editors. 2016. How to Overcome the Antibiotic Crisis: Facts, Challenges, Technologies and Future Perspectives. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Baer PC, Luttmann W. 2014. Adipose-derived Stromal/Stem Cells and Their Differentiation Potential into the Endothelial Lineage. In: Hescheler J, Hofer E, editors. Adult and Pluripotent Stem Cells: Potential for Regenerative Medicine of the Cardiovascular System. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; p. 53–70.

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

Fang J. 2014. Glassfrogs Hatch Early When They’re Abandoned. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/glassfrogs-hatch-early-when-theyre-abandoned/

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. 1996. VBA Information Technology Investment. 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

Ringberg JE. 2012. Daily life at Cerro León, an Early Intermediate period highland settlement in the Moche Valley, Peru [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

(nyt) SK. 2001. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Rare Praise On Chechnya. New York Times.:A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Renfrew 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Renfrew 2009; Zhu and Hoffman 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zhu and Hoffman 2014)
Three or more authors: (Licciardi et al. 2009)

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