How to format your references using the California Agriculture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for California Agriculture. 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

Killworth PD. 2004. Comment on “Oceanic Rossby waves acting as a ‘hay rake’ for ecosystem floating by-products.” Science, 304:390; author reply 390.

A journal article with 2 authors

Meyer JR & Kassen R. 2007. The effects of competition and predation on diversification in a model adaptive radiation. Nature, 446:432–435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lindström NO, Hohenstein P & Davies JA. 2013. Nephrons require Rho-kinase for proximal-distal polarity development. Sci Rep, 3:2692.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nummela S, Thewissen JGM, Bajpai S et al. 2004. Eocene evolution of whale hearing. Nature, 430:776–778.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benslama M, Batatia H & Messai A. 2016. Transitions from Digital Communications to Quantum Communications, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p.

An edited book

Shi YQ & Jeon B eds. 2006. Digital Watermarking: 5th International Workshop, IWDW 2006, Jeju Island, Korea, November 8-10, 2006. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XII, 476 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Debats NB, Kingma I, Beek PJ et al. 2012. The Precision of “Haptic” Rod Length Perception Is Reduced by Lack of Visual Precision. In: Isokoski P, Springare J, (eds.). Haptics: Perception, Devices, Mobility, and Communication: International Conference, EuroHaptics 2012, Tampere, Finland, June 13-15, 2012 Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, p. 19–24.

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 California Agriculture.

Blog post

Davis J. 2015. Strange Red Streaks Spotted On Tethys. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/strange-red-streaks-spotted-tethys/ [Accessed October 30, 2018].

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. 1997. EPA: Control of Emissions of Air Pollution From Highway Heavy-Duty Engines, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. p.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Razo SI. 2009. Parenting practices of Latina mothers and children’s behavior outcomes. Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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. Behind the White Glasses. New York Times:C13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Killworth 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Killworth 2004; Meyer & Kassen 2007).

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

Two authors: (Meyer & Kassen 2007)
Three or more authors: (Nummela et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	California Agriculture
Abbreviation	Calif. Agric. (Berkeley)
ISSN (print)	0008-0845
ISSN (online)	2160-8091
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