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

Brody H. 2015. Prostate cancer. Nature, 528:S117.

A journal article with 2 authors

Field J & Fullagar R. 2001. Archaeology and Australian megafauna. Science, 294:7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wall DH, Nielsen UN & Six J. 2015. Soil biodiversity and human health. Nature, 528:69–76.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rinaldi S, Mura M, Castagna A et al. 2014. Long-lasting changes in brain activation induced by a single REAC technology pulse in Wi-Fi bands. Randomized double-blind fMRI qualitative study. Sci Rep, 4:5668.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Willatzen M & Lew Yan Voon LC. 2011. Separable Boundary-Value Problems in Physics, Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. p.

An edited book

Clark R, Livingstone DW & Smaller H eds. 2012. Teacher Learning and Power in the Knowledge Society, Rotterdam: SensePublishers. XVI, 215 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Hölck O & Wunderle B. 2015. Microelectronics Packaging Materials: Investigating the Influence of Moisture by Molecular Dynamics Simulations. In: Wymyslowski A, Iwamoto N, Yuen M, et al., (eds.). Molecular Modeling and Multiscaling Issues for Electronic Material Applications: Volume 2. Cham: Springer International Publishing, p. 41–66.

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 California Agriculture.

Blog post

Hamilton K. 2016. Catching Lightning In A Fossil – And Calculating How Much Energy A Strike Contains. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/catching-lightning-in-a-fossil-and-calculating-how-much-energy-a-strike-contains/ [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. 1996. Transportation Issue Area Plan--Fiscal Years 1995-97, 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

Messian NM. 2012. The Spiral of Time: A Path to the Soul—Jewish Mystical and Depth Psychological Perspectives. Doctoral dissertation. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Billard M. 2010. Scouting Report. New York Times:E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brody 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Brody 2015; Field & Fullagar 2001).

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

Two authors: (Field & Fullagar 2001)
Three or more authors: (Rinaldi et al. 2014)

About the journal

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